The life of often controversial writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens, who after a long battle against cancer of the esophagus, as told in some of today's headlines:
-- "Christopher Hitchens, Author and Contrarian, Dies at 62." ( )
-- "Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62; Engaging, Enraging Author And Essayist." ( )
-- "Atheist Intellectual Christopher Hitchens Dead At 62." ( )
-- "Christopher Hitchens, 62; Writer's Ideas Enlivened Books, Magazines, Web." ( )
-- "RIP Christopher Hitchens, The Cicero Of The Saloon Bar."( )
-- "Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, With Wit." ( )
Vanity Fair, where Hitchens was a contributing editor, .
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