Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22 [1], and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor. “Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” Hitchens wrote [2] nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece [3] on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait [4] of Joan Didion, an >>>
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[1] //www.amazon.com/Hitch-22-Memoir-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/0446540331
[2] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/hitchens-201012
[3] //www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/07/osama-bin-laden-201107
[4] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/10/joan-didion-201110
[5] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/09/private-eye-201109
[6] //www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/04/hitchens-201104
[7] //www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/02/dont-mess-with-wisconsin
[8] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/06/christopher-hitchens-unspoken-truths-201106
[9] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009
[10] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/10/hitchens-201010
[11] //www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/06/christopher-hitchens-unspoken-truths-201106
