hitchens

“I find now that I can more or less acquit myself on any charge of having desired Martin carnally. (My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me.) What eventuated instead was the most heterosexual relationship that one young man could conceivably have with another.” — Hitch-22

I’m within striking distance of the end of Hitch-22, the reading of which has ended up being far less joyful than I anticipated when I bought it. I’ll write more on it soon, somewhere. But in the meanwhile, there’s a survey of Hitchens’ intellectual evolution by Michael Weiss in The New Criterion that is far better than anything I could manage. I especially liked this bit, remarking upon Hitchens’ notorious contrarianism:

The author has called off his book tour. I really, really hope he’s ok.

Title says it all. The man  has guts.