Born in 1949, Christopher Hitchens was a journalist, author and well known polemicist.
For his first ever book, Stephen Phillps signed a deal to release a book about Hitchen in 2022.
However Hitchens’s widow and his literary agent are discouraging friends and family from contributing towards Phillips’s research.
Stephen Phillips has signed a deal with publishing house W.W. Norton to write a book about the late British writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. Born in 1949 Hitchens was a journalist, author and speaker. His fluid writing, large persona and defiance of religious institutions made for a polarising intellectual.
Titled Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens, the publisher bought the book from Phillips last year with the plan to release it in 2022. This is the author’s first book.
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
December 16, 2020
The town of Los Alamos lies upon the slopes of a living supervolcano called the Valles Caldera, at a crisp High-Desert elevation of 7,300 feet above sea level. The modern town is barely a century old, but the nearby cliff villages were built more than a thousand years earlier by the Tewa, who carved homes into the caldera’s cliffs Bandelier Tuff, the chalky volcanic stuff is called, in honor of the archaeologist Adolph Bandelier’s work here in the late 1800s.
You can walk among these skull-eyed cliff dwellings preserved since 1916 within Bandelier National Monument and appreciate the then-novel approach of Bandelier, who combined “historical research, folklore, mythology, native traditions, ethnography, ethnohistory, and archaeology” in an early effort to remove European-American assumptions about New World culture, as so much more can be discovered with an open mind.
On Barack Obamaâs Memoir and Other Letters to the Editor
Credit.Joan Wong; Fotografías de Angelo Merendino/Getty Images; David L. Ryan vía The Boston Globe vía Getty Images
Dec. 11, 2020
To the Editor:
After having read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs review of Barack Obamaâs new memoir, âA Promised Landâ (Nov. 29), I have a slightly different take on the former presidentâs motives.
My read is that he is responding to President Trumpâs policies â that is, the past is discussed with an eye toward challenging Trump. It seems less than a completely honest or full explanation of Obamaâs years in the White House since he seems to be getting even with Trump.