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More on Hitch

Still reading quite a bit about the life of Christopher Hitchens. This profile from 2006 is pretty entertaining. I really love this paragraph: 

At a dinner a few months ago in San Francisco with his wife, Carol Blue, and some others, Hitchens wore a pale jacket and a shirt unbuttoned far enough to hint at what one ex-girlfriend has called “the pelt of the Hitch.” Hitchens, who only recently gave up the habit of smoking in the shower, was working through a pack of cigarettes while talking to two women at his end of the table: a Stanford doctor in her early thirties whom he’d met once before, and a friend of hers, a librarian. He spoke with wit and eloquence about Iranian politics and what he saw as the unnecessary handsomeness of Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact_parker#ixzz1gtGXBVbd