A Hitch in Time, Christopher Hitchens
A Hitch in Time, Christopher Hitchens
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A Hitch in Time
Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

Author: Christopher Hitchens, James Wolcott

Narrator: Hannibal Hills, James Wolcott

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 01/02/2024

Synopsis

In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.

Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of ferocious letters.

A Hitch in Time is a banquet of entertaining stories ranging from his thoughts on Salman Rushdie to being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords, and the night he took his son to the Oscars. Along with an introduction by James Wolcott, A Hitch in Time recaptures the brilliance of Hitchens–barnstorming, cauterizing, and ultimately uncontainable.

About Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor in liberal studies at the New School in New York. His books include Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, and God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick on March 13, 2024

It seems that a posthumous collection of Christopher Hitchens’ essays for the London Review of Books, A Hitch in Time, has been released. It covers the years between 1983-2002 and none of the essays have been anthologized elsewhere. He mainly takes on political, literary, academic, and social topics......more

Goodreads review by Vinny on January 04, 2024

I love me some Hitch, but these are the dregs 🙁......more

Goodreads review by Bookreporter.com on January 07, 2024

The world of political commentary lost one of its most prolific and stimulating members when Christopher Hitchens died in 2011 at the age of 62. Now, thanks to A HITCH IN TIME, readers who enjoyed his often acidic but always eloquent writing can revisit its pleasures. The 23 entries in this volume (f......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 11, 2024

Just as I enjoyed reading William Buckley despite our sometimes marked political differences, I enjoyed reading these old essays of Hitchens from the London Review of Books. He is someone who wrote: Concerning those who declined to criticize the fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of their purported......more

Goodreads review by Anonymouse on August 28, 2024

I have friends who love Hitch on the debate stage, where his learning and verbal nimbleness shine. I always prefer his essays, especially his book reviews in The Atlantic. This is a book of, as I understand it, never previously collected essays, many from Vanity Fair. As with any collection, some pi......more

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