It’s been too long since I had any Christopher Hitchens video love here. Here he is giving a speech based on his book about George Orwell.
October 21, 2002 @ The Commonwealth Club.
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№12
Title: Condensed Knowledge [$]
Author: ed. Will Pearson & al.
Publisher: Collins
Year: 2004
Pages: 345
My brother’s been reading mental_floss and its associated books for several years. Condensed Knowledge is, to the extent of my knowledge, the first of their [adjective] Knowledge compendia, essentially [...]
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№8
Title: Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Year: 2007
Pages: 160
I continue my torrid literary affair with Christopher Hitchens with his latest short biography. He’s previously done a slim tome about Thomas Jefferson; now, [...]
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№57
Title: Shakespeare: The World As Stage [$]
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year: 2007
Pages: 208
Let me first say, in the interest of full disclosure, that I am absolutely crazy about Bill Bryson. Really, the man can do no wrong. I think [...]
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№25
Title: The Buried Book [$]
Author: David Damrosch
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Year: 2007
Pages: 336
I’m far from being a historical scholar; I’ve only read Gilgamesh once, and that was years ago. In fact, my interest in history lies more in the [...]
Today, I leave for University of Western Michigan for the 42 Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. I’m presenting on Saturday. I’m also going to the Bells Brewery.
A full report when I get back.
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№22
Title: Love, Poverty, and War [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Nation Books
Year: 2003
Pages: 475
Anyone who’s frequented my blog to any significant degree knows that I am (mostly) a fan of Christopher Hitchens. I find him an excellent journalist, as well as a [...]
Kurt Vonnegut has passed away at the age of 84.
Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died Wednesday. He was 84. [...]
The author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as [...]
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Title: The Eyre Affair [$]
Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2003
Pages: 384
I happened upon Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair entirely by accident (though for the life of me I don’t remember how). I seem to have a particular weakness for British charm [...]
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