Christopher Hitchens Book TV aired 11/3/2007 Saul Bellow

[lesscunning]

bellow described my penis perfectly and descriptively.

[historywillabsolve]

penis lover XD

[detectivesyme]

Damn, that shit was racist, son

[WoodsAmanda]

It seems as if you didn't watch the whole thing for if you had you would have seen Hitchens's explanation that Bellow was more expressing people's fears than being a bigot.

[detectivesyme]

yeah sort of like hitler, i get it now thanks

[WoodsAmanda]

There's a difference between manipulation and expression.

[hurting]

I'm reading this now. I think you need the context of the book to understand what Bellow is doing - the main character is an old Holocaust survivor in failing health who feels increasingly out of place and fearful in the modern world. It's the character who sees the pickpocket as an animal, not Bellow (I think, anyway). Hitchens, on the other hand, seems a bit off the mark to say that "everyone" was afraid of this sort of thing. But he's off the mark pretty often.

[sleepcity]

@detectivesyme All subtlety and nuance appears to be lost on you. Your tone-deaf replies epitomize the baseness and hysteria that has infected all serious dialogue in the US. The fact that you've favorited Howard Stern videos is completely unsurprising, "son."

[templarart]

thank you!

[aLifeLessMagical]

Ah, to take a literature class with this man. Thanks for posting.

[wonderfulkeithfloyd]

Good to see something different from the Hitch.

[papavb]

Refreshing indeed, I rather like the narrative he inserts twixt the reading.

Thanks for posting operation

[operationmongoose]

You're quite welcome. It is rather nice to see Hitchens opine on subjects other than god and Iraq. It would be a waste of fine intellect to  subject it to such narrow criteria.

[raouldukeofprunes]

Well politics and religion are only portions of what he does, it's just that seems to be what people ask him about the most.

[raouldukeofprunes]

Well politics and religion are only portions of what he does, it's just that seems to be what people ask him about the most.

[ComradeAgopian]

Thanks for the vid,Hitchens and Bellow are two of my favorite authors.