Christopher Hitchens

A provocateur of the highest degree, writer Christopher Hitchens has never been one to let the burden of telling someone else's story get in the way of his own opinions or outsized personality. Even if past works on atheism, leftist politics, and women in comedy have shed as much light on Hitchens as they have their ostensible subjects, he's never written so explicitly about himself as he does in the newly released memoir, Hitch-22. Freed to spill his whiskey-filled guts, Hitch-22 presents Hitchens at his most candid and entertaining, as an unapologetic devil's advocate who's never encountered an argument he didn't want to get into—even if it means submitting to a volunteer waterboarding while on assignment from Vanity Fair. 

Updated 06/24/2010