Mortality reviews

The Guardian

In these final essays, Hitchens examines his own disbelief that writing – indistinguishable to him from living – is about to end. "Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Centre rise again? To read – if not indeed to write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/26/mortality-christopher-hitchens-review

Daily Mail Online

There has been a recent spate of books written by men suffering from terminal cancer. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens is, by my reckoning, the third this year, the others being When I Die by the New Labour PR Philip Gould, and Until Further Notice, I Am Alive by the art critic Tom Lubbock.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2193609/MORTALITY-Christopher-Hitchens-Review-new-book-written-great-debater.html#ixzz24f8isF2G

WHITE WALLS / BLACK INK

No one who might have glanced over back in December at a post on my now defunct political blog, Orwell’s Hanky, about the death of Christopher Hitchens, will labor through this review with any misapprehensions regarding objectivity. I’ve grown to become very comfortable in the position that no review (or even, honestly, rather much journalism of any sort) can or should reach for objectivity. http://wwbi.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/christopher-hitchenss-mortality/

Mortality

Amazon Book Description:

MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.

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Christopher Hitchens: an impossible act to follow

The Telegraph
By Carol Blue

Onstage, my husband was an impossible act to follow. If you ever saw him at the podium, you may not share Richard Dawkins’s assessment that “he was the greatest orator of our time”, but you will know what I mean – or at least you won’t think, “She would say that, she’s his wife.” Offstage, my husband was an impossible act to follow.

Read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9480797/Christopher-Hitchens-an-impossible-act-to-follow.html

The “unpublished jottings” of Christopher Hitchens

By Christopher Hitchens and David Plotz

"Remember, you too are mortal"—hit me at the top of my form and just as things were beginning to plateau. My two assets my pen and my voice—and it had to be the esophagus. All along, while burning the candle at both ends, I'd been "straying into the arena of the unwell" and now "a vulgar little tumor" was evident. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/fighting_words/2012/08/christopher_hitchens_mortality_the_unpublished_jottings_of_the_late_great_writer_and_thinker_.html

'I am not fighting or battling cancer - it is fighting me'

Daily Mail Online

As he faced death from cancer, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens kept his wry sense of humour to the very end, it emerged today.
He used a hospital food tray as a desk for his computer to record his last thoughts about the illness which claimed his life at 62.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190200/I-fighting-battling-cancer--fighting-Last-words-author-Christopher-Hitchens-faced-death.html

Mr. Deity and the Hitch

The Importance of Being Orwell

Vanity Fair | August 2012
By Christopher Hitchens

George Orwell’s best-known work (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) emerged from painstaking investigation. In the introduction to a groundbreaking volume of Orwell’s diaries, V.F.’s late columnist dissects one of the 20th century’s greatest political minds, a writer who was also his lifelong inspiration. 

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/08/christopher-hitchens-george-orwell

MORTALITY by Christopher Hitchens

By Cary Goldstein, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Twelve Books

This September, Twelve will publish the last original book-length work by Christopher Hitchens, an intimate and brave chronicle of his ordeal with esophageal cancer.

 

MORTALITY will be published on September 4, and will include a Foreword by Christopher’s longtime editor and chum, Graydon Carter, and a powerful and beautifully rendered Afterword by his wife, Carol Blue. We will be sure to update our blog and website with evolving plans for publication and media.

http://twelvebooks.com/mortality-by-christopher-hitchens-2/

Missing Hitchens

Vanity Fair Slideshow July 2012

Family, friends, and esteemed colleagues gathered to celebrate the life and career of award-winning journalist Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union Foundation Building, in New York City.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/christopher-hitchens-memorial-photos#slide=1

Lawrence Krauss - Christopher Hitchens Tribute

Richard Dawkins - Christopher Hitchens Tribute

Hitchens honoured with Orwell memorial

The Telegraph
Christopher Hitchens, the writer and commentator once described as the heir to George Orwell, was given a posthumous honour at this year's Orwell Prize.

Christopher Hitchens, the writer and commentator who died last year, was last night honoured with a Memorial at this year's Orwell Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing.

More http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9287302/Christopher-Hitchens-honoured-with-Orwell-memorial.html

VF & CH Win National Magazine Award in “Columns and Commentary”

Vanity Fair

Fair won a 2012 National Magazine Award at a ceremony held by the American Society of Magazine Editors last night, in recognition of the late author Christopher Hitchens’s brilliant columns and commentary. Hitchens’s three essays—“When the King Saved God,” “Unspoken Truths,” and “From Abbattabad to Worse”—touched on the topics of politics, religion, and dealing with the diminishing effects of chemotherapy. 

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/05/vanity-fair-christopher-hitchens-win-2012-national-magazine-award

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PEN Festival Panel Gives Hitchens Mixed Grades

Arts Beat / New York Times

The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicked off Monday night with a panel discussion about the life and work of Christopher Hitchens. Billed as a “tribute” to the writer, the promotional materials for the event said it would engage with this question, among others: “Did the man and his methods overshadow his ideas?”

Read more http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/pen-festival-panel-gives-christopher-hitchens-mixed-grades/