1. Mailer pseudo-kerfuffle follows a pattern: there's a type of male writer who tends to be a star when alive & then goes into reputational decline soon after death: macho, two-fisted, sometimes substance abusing: Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Mailer, Harlan Ellison, Hitchens.
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6. Hitchens was once a name to conjure with & his legacy is still unsettled. What is living and what is dead in his oeuvre?
@bellye66 & I sat down to talk some Hitchens:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-what-happened-to-christopher?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I love your stuff but I don't think this is quite right. I don't find Dawkins and Hitchens attacks on Christianity as post 9/11 stuff. I think they did go down that route sadly, but that's not where their atheism came from.
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They were atheists before 9/11 but 9/11 gave them a way of repackaging their views for a wider audience (hence: "New Atheists").
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Did Hitchens run over your foot with his car or something? This is starting to look a bit odd, Jeet.
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Looking forward to this chat. But I disagree w this assertion. His command if the King James Bible was formidable (he loved the Bible as e literature and poetry) His tussles with Christian apologists were far more impressive, entraining and frequent.
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Despise the "new atheist" moniker. It's reserved for people who moved from arid philosophical atheism and realized actual criticism of horrific institutions like the RCC had to be direct, and predicated on the obvious fact that they traded on an unearned authority.
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Do you think that bits of his writings will endure as aphorisms, like H. L. Mencken's did?
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