..says Wieseltier, head-to-toe in black and wearing aviators when he greets me in his corner office, which is almost comically stacked with books.

http://nymag.com/news/features/chris-hughes-2012-12/index4.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/how-the-mullahs-won/309170/?single_page=true

How the Mullahs Won

Salman Rushdie’s artistic decline

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By Isaac Chotiner

People wonder what was it about Christopher Hitchens that they loved. I think what was so special about him was that he was not afraid of thinking differently AND not afraid of saying it. So many people in the world of ideas- for wont of a better term- seem to emote the same as everyone else, and take their lack of independence of thought for enlightened opinion. Hitchens was different. Sometimes he followed the herd, sometime he didn't; he always did recognize that it was a herd. And when he disagreed, he had no problem saying it and saying it in such a enjoyable way.  He is missed.