Backstage: "Death Is a Very Liberating Thought" - Christopher Hitchens

June 4, 2010

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Speaking at The New York Public Library in early June 2010, shortly after the publication of his memoir Hitch 22 and before learning he had cancer, Christopher Hitchens said "one should try to write as if posthumously... death is a very liberating thought."