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“It was at the outset of his publicity tour Hitch-22 that Christopher Hitchens learned the awful news that he had become gravely ill. He’d been slated to appear on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,’ and then at the 92nd Street Y, where he was to be interviewed about the book by his old friend Salman Rushdie. After a brutal morning tour in the emergency room, he recounts in Mortality that he dutifully hit his mark at both events, ‘though I did vomit two times, with an extraordinary combination of accuracy, neatness, violence, and profusion, just before each show. This is what citizens of the sick country do while they are still hopelessly clinging to their old domicile.’” 

Read the rest of Chris Lehmann’s review of Christopher Hitchens’s Mortality.