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jazzy_daveChristopher Hitchens "And Yet..." (Atlantic Books)
This is another of those books I dipped into occasionally over the last few months. These pieces were never meant to be read one after the other - it's Hitchens the journalist here slightly less than Hitchens the essayist, and so, for different publications, he repeats the clever expressions and bon mots he used in one article for the next on the same theme. The result is a book for completists more than casual readers; if like me you're still greatly enamoured of the Hitchens approach, it's worth a read, especially if you have read his Guardian essays and other periodical pieces.
He was snarky and erudite. Some essays resonated much more with me, while others seemed needlessly self-absorbed and overly critical and thus an uneven posthumous publication of a collection.
This is another of those books I dipped into occasionally over the last few months. These pieces were never meant to be read one after the other - it's Hitchens the journalist here slightly less than Hitchens the essayist, and so, for different publications, he repeats the clever expressions and bon mots he used in one article for the next on the same theme. The result is a book for completists more than casual readers; if like me you're still greatly enamoured of the Hitchens approach, it's worth a read, especially if you have read his Guardian essays and other periodical pieces.
He was snarky and erudite. Some essays resonated much more with me, while others seemed needlessly self-absorbed and overly critical and thus an uneven posthumous publication of a collection.
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