Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widowâs Wishes
Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husbandâs literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled âPamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.â
Christopher Hitchens, whose books included âGod Is Not Greatâ and âThe Trial of Henry Kissinger,â died in 2011.Credit.Mark Mahaney for The New York Times
Published Feb. 4, 2021Updated Feb. 8, 2021
Stephen Phillips was doing dishes and listening to the podcast âA Life in Biographyâ one evening last fall when he learned why some people were not responding to his emails.
He is writing a book for W.W. Norton about the writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011. But Carol Blue-Hitchens, the authorâs widow, and Steve Wasserman, his literary agent, were not planning to participate in Phillipsâs project, the podcast explained, and they encouraged family, friends and co
An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great
Literary Minds We Lost This Year
December 18, 2020
The year is at an end, and I think I speak for pretty much everyone when I say: good riddance. (While we don’t have any guarantee that 2021 will be an improvement, it seems like it would have to be.) Among the many unhappinesses of this year, we lost what seems like an unusually large number of members of the literary community, from poets to novelists to editors to critics to publishers to booksellers. To them, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. They will be missed.