Hitchens, to take him by his own accounts, is the Zelig of modern Anglo-American letters he seems to have been everywhere, talked to everyone and made friends in every corner of the world, whether or not anyone else was there to record the conversation. In place of revelation, there is lots and lots of gossip. Hitchens never really says he is or was bisexual he does admit to having slept with a couple of unnamed young men while at Oxford, but I thought something like that simply meant you were English. What about the big stuff, such as the supposed confessions of bisexuality that have been titillating the British press and his conversion from socialist or Marxist or whatever he felt like calling himself before the World Trade towers came down to defender of the Bush administration's Iraq policy? More on the latter in a moment, but the former amounts to nothing at all. Chesterton's phrase) of his youth was "How Green Was My Valley." He is part Jewish (on his mother's side) she wanted him to be "an English gentleman." His father, a military man, was known as "The Commander." His "literary hero" is Borges, he thinks Costa-Gavras' "Z" is "the greatest of all sixties movies." The favorite "good-bad book" (to use G.K. If you're interested in Hitchens trivia, "Hitch 22" is loaded. In fact, there is barely any mention of his three children, only a passing mention of his current wife, and none at all of his younger brother, Peter, a right-wing columnist in England. His icon, George Orwell, said that "Autobiography is not to be trusted unless it reveals something disgraceful," and Hitchens fails to mention that his first wife was pregnant with his child when he left her. The book certainly isn't an autobiography. In interviews, Christopher Hitchens - pre-9/11 journalist and public intellectual turned celebrity journalist, TV talk show pundit and professional atheist - is calling " Hitch-22" "a selective memoir." And while all memoirs, of course, are selective, Hitchens' is really selective.
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