CANCELLED*
For personal reasons, Christopher Hitchens has been forced to cancel his trip to LA. Please accept our apologies and Christopher’s regrets for the inconvenience. He was very much looking forward to this engagement.
In conversation with Steve Wasserman,
former editor, LA Times Book Review
*Refunds will be automatically generated for those who purchased tickets online or you may choose to make a tax deductible gift of your purchase by emailing maureenmoore@lfla.org. Proceeds from ticket sales help make possible the nearly 100 free cultural programs produced annually by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles on behalf of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Please allow 5 - 10 business days for refunds to be processed. For those who purchased books online, they will be shipped free of charge to the address included at checkout. For questions regarding booksales please contact the Library Store at 213.228.7550.
British-born, Christopher Hitchens began his career in England in the 1970s, writing for the New Statesman, Evening Standard and London's Daily Express. He served as the Washington editor for Harper's and as the U.S. correspondent for The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement.
He is the author of more than ten books, including The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001), Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001), Why Orwell Matters (2002), A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (2003), and God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2009), and is also a regular television and radio commentator. Hitchens is known for his atheism and anti-theism and is a firm believer in secularism, humanism and reason. Hitchens contributes an essay on books each month to The Atlantic Monthly and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair.
He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Pittsburgh; and the New School of Social Research. He lives in Washington D.C.
Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, is a principal partner of Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency, based in New York, and moonlights as books editor of the award-winning online magazine, www.truthdig.com He represents numerous authors, including Christopher Hitchens, film critic David Thomson, foreign-affairs commentator William Pfaff, and the Atlantic magazine's national and literary editor Benjamin Schwarz.
The Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
