January 2012
“With his vast array of geohistorical references and precedents, he is almost...”
– Amis on Hitchens: ‘He’s one of the most terrifying rhetoricians the world has seen’ | Books | The Observer
“IT WAS mid-January and the roads in New York were slick with ice. I was driving...”
– Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality - health - 04 January 2012 - New Scientist
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
“Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2,285 a night to stay...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
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Review of Stephenson’s *README*
December 2011
“[…] And Port had said: “Death is always on the way, but the fact...”
– The Sheltering Sky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia