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Hitchens
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Biography: Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British-American author, journalist and literary critic. He has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry. Hitchens is known for his atheism and anti-theism and has is a firm believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism [...]
Biography: Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British-American author, journalist and literary critic. He has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry. Hitchens is known for his atheism and anti-theism and has is a firm believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism [...]
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July 01, 2010Paper Cuts: Book Review Podcast: Christopher HitchensSend by jk22Featuring Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, ?Hitch-22?; and Chris Suellentrop on Tom Bissell?s ?Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.? [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010An Update From Christopher HitchensSend by xenophrenia"I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy." Some are attributing it to his smoking,this esophageal cancer is more closely related to drinking alcohol excessively. The fact that it's chemo and not surgery - doesn't look good [...] . your continued existence is highly valued .. we need you Christopher - don't go Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 07, 2010Bring Down The Thunder ......Not !Posted by Hellen PopovichRemember the story of Jonah. Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh . So he fled in hopes of getting away from God's call to go and preach repentance. Well God used a extreme method , being in the belly of a whale is not my idea of a good time , to get Jonah to Nineveh. Jonah brings God's message , the [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 06, 2010The Eponymous Flower: Christopher Hitchens Thinks Che Guevarra Is ...Send by TancredChristopher Hitchens may think God is not great, but Che Guevara is his hero. Not surprising that this enfant terrible and supposed former Trotskeyite should embrace a murdering Argentinian Bolschevik who thought of himself as Stalin II [...] Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 06, 2010MadeMark: Christopher Hitchens Discusses His Cancer With Anderson ...Send by MadeMarkI'm annoyed by Cooper's persistence on suggesting that Hitchens, an atheist, might at some point, perhaps at his greatest suffering, want to 'hedge your bets' and believe in god. I find that so insulting, to both Hitchens and to god. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 09, 2010A Sunday Morning Reading & Video: Christopher Hitchens Blue LyonSend by bluelyonA Sunday Morning Reading & Video: Christopher Hitchens. Posted on August 8, 2010 by bluelyon. Photo for Vanity Fair by John Huba. Hitch's first essay since his cancer diagnosis in June: Topic of Cancer [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 07, 2010Sympathy For Christopher Hitchens - Cancer - Salon.comPosted by Hellen PopovichThe famously hard-living writer contemplates dying -- and becomes human again [...] Yet the eloquent feistiness of Hitchens' story, it turns out, makes a stunning [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010Christopher Hitchens Diagnosed With CancerSend by www.newstatesman.comHitchens announces that he is to undergo chemotherapy. Here's why he'd be missed. Christopher Hitchens. Photograph: Getty Images. [...] Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010Christopher Hitchens Makes Few Apologies In His Memoir, Hitch-22 ...Send by [email protected] (BronweFrom there, Hitchens traces his education at Balliol College, Oxford, his early years as a political journalist writing for The New Statesman and his life-changing friendships with Martin Amis, James Fenton, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 06, 2010Christopher Hitchens On CNN Occultdetective.comSend by cairnwoodThis entry was posted on August 6, 2010 at 1:08 pm and is filed under Ruminations with tags Christopher Hitchens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010Christopher Hitchens Has Cancer - Rod DreherPosted by Hellen PopovichChuck Bloom passes on the sad news: Christopher Hitchens is being treated for cancer, forcing the D.C. writer to cut short his latest book tour. In a statement released through his [...] Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 02, 2010Michael J. TottenSend by Michael J. TottenChristopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with cancer. According to the Washington Post, he has been "advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me." [...] Rating: ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010Don't Ask Christopher Hitchens About Anything But Himself - The AwlSend by ChoireFor the next three weeks, Christopher Hitchens will be on book tour. He leaves the east coast next week, and then travels from Seattle on south, ending by. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010Depressing News Roundup: Unemployment, Hitch Cancer, MorePosted by Hellen PopovichIt's been a little depressing out there, which is kind of an understatement. First of all, what the hell is wrong with the United States Senate? Though the jobs crisis shows few signs of abating and the unemployment rate continues to hover near 10 percent, Congress allowed extended unemployment bene [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 06, 2010Christopher Hitchens Writes Candidly Of His Spreading Cancer ...Posted by Hellen PopovichChristopher Hitchens writes in the latest issue of Vanity Fair about the cancer of the oesophagus that is afflicting him. He does so, as one might [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 06, 2010Hitchens On Anderson CooperPosted by Hellen PopovichHere?s Christopher Hitchens?s nine-minute interview with Anderson Cooper last night. Cooper brings up the question that everybody wants Hitchens to answer, and I must say that it never crossed my mind. If you think he?d abandon his principles for God on his deathbed, then you either don? t know him [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 02, 2010A Human Mind: Christopher Hitchens Et Alia.Send by [email protected] (Fabio)This, however, is not meant to be an apology - much less an eulogy - for Mr Hitchens. After all, he doesn't need the former and the latter would be an awful display of morbidity on my part. Not to mention that even I find myself quite [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 06, 2010Hitch On Cancer, Cont?dPosted by Hellen PopovichA lovely essay from Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon today about Christopher Hitchens, author of the recent memoir ?Hitch: 22,? and a recently diagnosed with cancer. While the contemporary field of journalism is riddled with pigeon-chested tweet monkeys, Hitchens remains the last of the larger-than- [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
August 07, 2010Christopher Hitchens Talks About Death And GodPosted by Hellen PopovichChristopher Hitchens on god and Cancer, an interview with Anderson Cooper He mentions how boring chemotherapy is in this article and how helpless it makes him feel. Somebody send the man a whole barrage of movies from the golden era of HK cinema! The heart-touching, hilarious and deftly-crafted bomb [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |
July 01, 2010Christopher Hitchens: Biography From Answers.comPosted by Hellen PopovichChristopher Hitchens , Writer Born: 13 April 1949 Birthplace: Portsmouth, England Best Known As: Author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons [...] Rating: ![]() ![]() Rate up / Rate down |