Obits abound. My favorite outtake so far.
“Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me,” he told Charlie Rose in a television interview in 2010, adding that it was “impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.”
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Friday ~ December 16th, 2011 at 11:28 am
bdbd
A great great loss. It was no surprise, of course, but I was so sorry to hear this. I happened to encounter Hitchens and his wife on an Amtrak some months ago. I found myself standing next to him, so I (probably stupidly) remarked that it was nice to see him with a fuller head of hair again (it had regrown). He kindly smiled to acknowledge me, and said, “Well, it won’t be there long.”
I will miss his work.
Friday ~ December 16th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Dain
Interesting, but as far parties and late nights being associated with writing, that’s only true for the superstar writers like Hitchens. From what I’ve seen writing is a shut-in’s activity, and unless you’re employed to do it (and even then, I “telecommute”) there are no office parties that go along with it.
Sunday ~ December 18th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
bdbd
Hitchens was also something of a superstar drinker and partier.