Hitchens' Latest Blackout


Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM  
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FOG OF WAR The Hitch is too busy for news

How does Christopher Hitchens do it? Before the rest of us have had our morning coffee, the British-born savant has already polished off 5,000 breezy words for Vanity Fair, a polemic for the New Republic, a book review for the Atlantic, a Viagra confessional for Maxim, and a half-gallon of Scotch. The man sneezes copy.

But his latest column on Slate, a self-administered Q&A entitled "So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren't You Wrong About Iraq?" betrays the secret behind his impressive output: He doesn't waste time reading newspapers.



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