Christopher Hitchens
British-American journalist and critic; he questioned Mailer at the 1984 PEN television panel, interviewed him for Vogue in 1991 ('Stormin' Norman'), and reviewed Harlot's Ghost favorably.
Christopher Hitchens, the British-American journalist and critic, crossed Mailer’s path repeatedly. He was among the journalists who sharply questioned Mailer on a 1984 London television panel during the Tough Guys Don’t Dance tour (86.26). In 1991 he interviewed Mailer for Vogue — “Stormin’ Norman” (91.25), a “thoughtful dialogue” on Harlot’s Ghost — and reviewed the novel favorably in the London Review of Books (“On the Imagining of Conspiracy,” 7 November 1991).
Stub created during the 1991 ingest.
Related pages
- “Stormin’ Norman” (91.25) | Harlot’s Ghost | 1991