And Yet… Essays - Christopher Hitchens Audiobook
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“America’s foremost rhetorical pugilist.” (John Giuffo, The Village Voice)
The death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary writers. For more than 40 years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic essays that were astonishingly wide ranging and provocative. The judges for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay posthumously bestowed on Hitchens praised him for the way he wrote “with fervor about the books and writers he loved and with unbridled venom about ideas and political figures he loathed”. He could write, the judges went on to say, with “undisguised brio, mining the resources of the language as if alert to every possibility of color and inflection.” He was, as Benjamin Schwarz, his editor at The Atlantic magazine, recalled, “slashing and lively, biting and funny - and with a nuanced sensibility and a refined ear that he kept in tune with his encyclopedic knowledge and near photographic memory of English poetry”. And as Michael Dirda, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, observed, Hitchens “was a flail and a scourge, but also a gift to readers everywhere”.
The author of five previous volumes of selected writings, including the international best seller Arguably, Hitchens left at his death nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. And Yet…assembles a selection that usefully adds to Hitchens’ oeuvre. It ranges from the literary to the political and is, by turns, a banquet of entertaining and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Pamuk, and Dickens, among others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking “makeover”. The range and quality of Hitchens’ essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
April 12th, 2019
Hitchens was always a master at afflicting the comfortable: we don’t seem to have many pundits who can do that - or are even willing to try - these days.
Still, I suppose there isn’t much call for that sort of thing.
A necessary book, thank you Daenigma.
April 12th, 2019
Thanks, enigma. Always a skilled journalist of short pieces, and an energetic polemicist. He was prepared to get waterboarded for an article on the War on Terror, to prove the hollowness of the appalling euphemism “enhanced interrogation technique.” He was also correct on Northern Ireland, John Donne and Clinton.
BUT, a prudent proviso, a cautionary clause: he was an unmitigated disaster as a philosopher. Watching him doing battle with metaphysical concepts was like watching a dolphin struggling to tap dance; or a cat trying to ejaculate a toad.
April 12th, 2019
Hitch was one of the best orators of my generation. He was a master at exposing religion as the ridiculous and dangerous fraud it is. I miss him greatly.
April 12th, 2019
Yes, he’s gone to his reward. At least you both had Paris.
April 12th, 2019
Never afraid to antagonize anyone including the Clintons. Always ready to admit when he was wrong. Could debate both ends of an issue like we all should be able to.
April 13th, 2019
Generously said, mpt.
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