The World Inside On 'Hitch-22'
"Dear friends, family, colleagues, pens, brothers, sisters and comrades. We have learned that a self-appointed biographer of Christopher [Hitchens], someone named Stephen Phillips, has embarked on a book about his life.
We
have learned about
his project and are dismayed for the
rudeness and narrowness
of his approach
. We do not trust him in the slightest. We will not collaborate with him and ask that you reject any request for collaboration from him or from his publisher, WW Norton. "
This is the text that Carol Blue-Hitchens, the widow of the writer Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), along with her agent, Steve Wasserman, have sent to their friends and that has appeared leaked in
The Nation
magazine
, the headline in the that Hitchens wrote between 1981 and 2002. Information about the blocking of Phillips' biography is critical of the Carol Blue-Hitchens mail.
Her husband, says
The Nation
, was above all a writer with a "
harsh, stubborn and vibrant
"
gaze
, whose personality is hardly compatible with such sabotage.
What is the background?
In the spring of 2010, a year and a half before his death, at the time when Hitchens was writing his famous
cancer series / chronicle
in the pages of
Vanity Fair
, his memoirs
Hitch-22 appeared
, which was probably the best-known book of Hitchens in Spain.
The text was a mixture of
generational, political, journalistic and theological portraiture
.
Hitchens counted himself as an individual who had struggled to free himself from two creeds: religion and Marxism.
Seven years later,
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
appeared in bookstores
.
The restless soul of the world's most notorious atheist
("the faith of Christopher Hitchens.
The restless soul of the world's most
famous atheist).
Its author, Larry Alex Taunton, is
an
American
evangelical propagandist
who had become intimate with Hitchens in his later years.
His text affected the contradictions of the English writer, including the cracks in his disdain for the religious fact, and, in the end, offered him a compassionate and redeeming look.
Many relatives and friends of Hitchens
expressed a very negative opinion
about that work.
From Stephen Phillips it is not easy to know what his curriculum is or what is the approach that has so disappointed Carol Blue-Hitchens.
It is known that he self-published a text called
Pamphleteer.
The life and times of Chritopher Hitchens
which today seems unfindable and left no reviews.
Is your resume a small thing for one of the most celebrated writers of his time?
Does the Hitchens family prefer to choose a biographer more to their liking and of higher status?
They would be within their rights.
It is another thing to sabotage the work of a third person, argues
The Nation
.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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