mortality

Christopher "Courageous"... Author: Christopher Hitchens What do you do when you know that you probably only have a year or two to live?  If you’re Christopher Hitchens, you just keep writing.  The award winning author, atheist and provocateur was diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer in June 2010 and eventually succumbed in December 2011, but he kept writing the whole time.  Mortality is a compilation of the Vanity Fair columns he wrote about his harrowing journey through the world of cancer. I’ve admired Hitchens’ writing before – on atheism, history and current events – and while this work delves into weightier [...]