Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Hitchens v. Hitchens

Most people here don't know that Christpher Hitchens has a Tory brother who also happens to be a writer. They really and I do mean really do not get along. Despite being estranged they did manage to appear together at a literary festival in the UK. The exchange is a rollicking affair touching on the Stalinist joke that lead to their estrangement, cold war politics, family dynamics and C. Hitchens doing his non-comformist thing. You can read the transcript here.

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