Hitchens on his new book: 'might be my very last'

HITCHENS' NEW BOOK MAY BE LAST: Public intellectual and author Christopher Hitchens, of whom I am very much a fan, has said that his new book, a collection of essays from numerous publications entitled Arguably, may well be his last. He writes in the book's introduction, "About a year ago, I was informed by a doctor that I might have as little as another year to live. In consequence, some of these articles were written with the full consciousness that they might be my very last...Sobering in one way and exhilarating in another, this practice can obviously never become perfected. But it has given me a more vivid idea of what makes life worth living, and defending, and I hope very much that some of this may infect those of you who have been generous enough to read me this far." I look forward to reading it.