I can't think of a more un-Hitchensian position than "we should oppose this biography because it is unauthorized." I mean Hitchens didn't ask the Pope for permission to write about Mother Theresa.
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There's already been a few books on Hitchens.
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I think it's funny that the guy whose whole reputation was how bravely he discarded social niceties and tore down sacred cows, is now the subject of an argument that his book will be mean and not fair. "Mean and not fair" was his whole brand. He bragged about it.
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Continues to emancipate folks long after his death. If anyone should attempt to write Hitchens biography it should be Dawkins Dennett or Harris
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I just hope it's an honest book and not filled with smears/lies like Hitchens converted to Christianity on his deathbed or some other bullshit. That type of stuff gets believed by some and used to tar his legacy. I can see his Widow being very much against that.
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Hitchens was always a weird dude, and after 9/11 he just went full ******. It's really jarring though to watch his early appearances in the 80s (e.g. on CSPAN) as a very cogent left critic of US imperialism and contrast with the full-throated apologist for empire he later became
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On a FB thread about this, one of NYC’s more eminent music journos raised this timely question: “Does the Hitchens estate have an authorized biographer in mind?”
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