Mortality

"If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him."--Ian McEwan

"The business and pleasure sides of Mr. Hitchens's personality can made him seem, whether you agree with him or not, among the most purely alive people on the planet."--Dwight Garner, "New York Times"

"Christopher Hitchens, the polemical polymath, is to modern American discourse what Lenny Bruce was to comedy. He changed the game, and in so doing forced us to examine our core beliefs. "--Timothy Egan, "New York Times"

"Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English Language."--Christopher Bukcley

"As contemptuous, digressive, righteous, and riotously funny as the rest of the author's incessant output, this memoir is an effective coming-of-age story, regardless of what one may think of the resulting adult . . . Hitchens paints a credible and even affecting self-portrait."-- "The New Yorker" on "Hitch-22"

"Being able to shape-change, shed skins, sit on the hillside overlooking suburbia like a coyote, Hitchens represents a dying breed of public intellectual whose voice matters precisely because it can't be easily pigeonholed or ignored."--Douglas Brinkley, "Los Angeles Times"

"Few writers can match Hitchens's cerebral pyrotechnics. Fewer still can emulate his punch as an intellectual character assassin. It is hard not to admire the sheer virtuosity of his prose...With Hitchens one simply goes along for the ride. The destination hardly matters."--Ed Luce, "Financial Times"

"Hitch-22 is among the loveliest paeans to the dearness of one's friends . . . I've ever read. The business and pleasure sides of Mr. Hitchens's personality can make him seem, whether you agree with him or not, among the most purely alive people on the planet."-- "The New York Times" on" Hitch-22" "Dwight Garner "

"In this frank, often wickedly funny account, Hitchens traces his evolution as a fiercely independent thinker and enemy of people who are convinced of their absolute certainty ... Revealing and riveting."-- "Kirkus" on "Hitch-22"

" ... a complex portrait of a public intellectual."-- "The Wall Street Journal "on" Hitch-22" "Alexandra Alter "