![]() And, as the not-quite version of Joseph Heller’s comic masterpiece, Hitch-22. Hitch-22 was a title born of the silly word games we played, one of which was Titles That Don’t Quite Make It, among which were A Farewell to Weapons, For Whom the Bell Rings, To Kill a Hummingbird, The Catcher in the Wheat, Mr. He had flung laughter and intelligence into the face of death. It was hard to believe that he had been so publicly magnificent on such a privately dreadful day. A few days later he told me that it was on the morning of the Y event that he had been given the news about his cancer. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterward at a small, celebratory dinner the brilliance continued. On June 8, 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. ![]()
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