On Christopher Hitchens and Mortality with Carol Blue, Cary Goldstein, Martin Amis and Robert Weil
Saturday, Nov. 17, 4:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
Throughout the course of his eighteen-month ordeal battling terminal esophageal cancer, renowned journalist, author, and atheist Christopher Hitchens adamantly refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In his memoir, Mortality (Twelve/Hachette Book Group, $22.99), Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. “Funny, smart, irreverent, and surprisingly moving, this lucid, unflinching end-of-life journey through "Tumorville" is brave and powerful stuff.”—Amazon Best Books of the Month. Writer Carol Blue, married to Hitchens since 1991, wrote the afterword to Mortality.
Sadly, Mr. Hitchens' battle with cancer came to an end in December 2011. His book will be presented by his wife, Carol Blue, Cary Goldstein, the Publisher & Editor-in- Chief, Twelve Books, the publisher of Christopher Hitchens memoir, author of Lionel Asbo: A Nove, Martin Amis, and Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director at W.W. Norton’s imprint Liveright and Company.
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Carol Blue
Throughout the course of his eighteen-month ordeal battling terminal esophageal cancer, renowned journalist, author, and atheist Christopher Hitchens adamantly refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In his memoir, Mortality (Twelve/Hachette Book Group, $22.99), Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. “Funny, smart, irreverent, and surprisingly moving, this lucid, unflinching end-of-life journey through "Tumorville" is brave and powerful stuff.”—Amazon Best Books of the Month. Writer Carol Blue, married to Hitchens since 1991, wrote the afterword to Mortality.
Cary Goldstein
Cary Goldstein, is Publisher & Editor-in- Chief, Twelve Books, the publisher of Christopher Hitchens memoir, Mortality (Twelve/Hatchette Book Group, $22.99). Throughout the course of his eighteen-month ordeal battling terminal esophageal cancer, renowned journalist, author, and atheist Christopher Hitchens adamantly refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In his memoir, Mortality, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. “Funny, smart, irreverent, and surprisingly moving, this lucid, unflinching end-of-life journey through "Tumorville" is brave and powerful stuff.”—Amazon Best Books of the Month. Writer Carol Blue, married to Hitchens since 1991, wrote the afterword to Mortality.
Martin Amis Martin Amis
Martin Amis’s latest, Lionel Asbo: A Novel (Knopf, $25.95), features a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug, named after England’s notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order. Just as he begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, his uncle—once again in a London prison—wins £140 million in the lottery and upon his release hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and “poet.” “With crisp insights, rollicking storytelling and acrobatic wit, Amis has created a peppery, topsy-turvy Pygmalion fable and hilarious dismantlement of our cherished rags-to-riches fantasy.” —Kansas City Star. Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six of nonfiction, most recently The Second Plane.
Robert Weil
Robert Weil is editor-in-chief and publishing director at W.W. Norton’s imprint Liveright and Company.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
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