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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5

      2. A commentator on my substack calls this literary school "penis-writing" and suggests it's fallen out of fashion. Hemingway has enjoyed a partial revival based on strength of his short stories, but it's hard to imagine Thompson, Mailer, Ellison or Hitchens doing same.pic.twitter.com/km3nxyF9Fc

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5

      3. Hitchens is a particularly interesting case. The 10th anniversary of his death (Dec. 15, 2011) was last month and there is a flurry of attempts to reevaluate, shore up or restore, notably a @graydoncarter piece & @BenBurgis' new book.pic.twitter.com/3F73pJawbA

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5

      4. If I had to bet, I'd say that basis for a Hitchens' revival will be on the literary essays (mainly from Atlantic & LRB, best seen in his book Unacknowledged Legislators). The journalism was mostly too tied to topical &, particularly post 9/11 stuff doesn't hold up.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5

      5. Oddly, Hitchens' atheists polemics also seem time-bound: The Old Atheists (say Bertrand Russell) were philosophical & sturdy. The New Atheists were very much of a piece with era of post 9/11 Islamophobia & liberal worries about Bush's public piety.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5

          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 …

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        2. paul elledge  🌻 🇺🇦 🌻 🇺🇦 🌻 🇺🇦 🌻 🇺🇦‏ @microbear1 Jan 5
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 5
          Replying to @microbear1

          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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        1. (((Rick Campbell)))‏ @RickCampbell4 Jan 5
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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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        1. RandoCalrissian‏ @en_passant_77 Jan 5
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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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        1. Word Search Moderation Sucks‏ @DeaconDallacort Jan 5
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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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        1. Bruce Thompson51‏ @BruceThompson51 Jan 5
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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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