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  Christopher Hitchens’ Final Vanity Fair Essay

  7214 readersToday Vanity Fair published Christopher Hitchens‘ final essay for the magazine, an inspiring tribute to Charles Dickens. The journalist and author passed away last month after a battle with cancer. If Hitchens’ tribute to a great author inspires you to read some books, follow this link to download free eBooks from Charles Dickens. Here’s an excerpt: “It is

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  Christopher Hitchens Lighters at Vanity Fair Party

  4393 readers Every guest at the exclusive Vanity Fair Oscar party last weekend received an unexpected souvenir: a Zippo lighter engraved with a quote from the late Christopher Hitchens. We’ve embedded an image above–has anybody seen one of these lighters in the wild? UPDATE: Slate Book Review spotted the quote in the photograph: “Everyone has a book inside

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  What Bloggers Need to Know About Trademark Law

  4452 readersThere are three major types of intellectual property law: Copyright, Patent and Trademark. The distinction between the three can often be confusing and gray, but in general copyright protects artistic expressions (literature, movies, photos, music, etc.), patents protect ideas and inventions and trademark protects any “mark” associated with a business. However, trademark is very different

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  Christopher Hitchens Writes about Joan Didion’s New Memoir

  10075 readersAt Vanity Fair, author Christopher Hitchens wrote about Joan Didion‘s upcoming memoir, Blue Nights. The book deals with the kind of grief that no one wants to endure. A follow-up to her 2005 bestseller The Year of Magical Thinking (which explores the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne), Blue Nights shares the heartbreaking story of

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  Christopher Hitchens Has Died

  10379 readersThe great essayist and journalist Christopher Hitchens has passed away. The 62-year-old author wrote a number of books, including God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and Hitch-22: A Memoir. Vanity Fair published an eulogy for the author, centered on his recent work: “in the last

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  Poem of the Day: Christopher Salerno’s from “ATM” | 01.10.12

  5074 readersListen: Christopher Salerno’s from “ATM” Today’s poem of the day is by Christopher Salerno, and is called from “ATM,” which you can find the complete text for after the jump. Christopher Salerno’s books of poems include Minimum Heroic, winner of the 2010 Mississippi Review Poetry Series Award, and Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006). A chapbook, ATM is

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  Christopher Hitchens Creates Reading List for 8-Year-Old Girl

  7313 readersLast month at the Texas Freethought Convention, author Christopher Hitchens spent 15 minutes creating a reading list for an eight-year-old girl named Mason Crumpacker. For your weekend reading pleasure, Chron.com collected the books on the reading list: “Dawkins’ Magic of Reality, Greek and Roman myths, particularly those compiled by Robert Graves, anything satirical by Shakespeare,

• Humility and Humiliation

  2453 readersI heard a television interview subject express compassion for previously independent Gulf Coast fishermen who'd had to "go through the humility" of accepting financial help. Original Post: Humility and Humiliation Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.

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  Speaking of Trademarks, Maybe Chik-fil-A Should Start Serving a Kale-fil-A

  3779 readersWould you have a hard time distinguishing the source of a fast food chicken sandwich if a t-shirt company trademarked a phrase used on their t-shirts that promotes sustainable food?In other words, if you saw this:Would you think this:Or this:The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office defines a trademark as "a word, name, symbol, or device

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  What We’ve Been Reading: Suddenly, A Knock On the Door | 04.11.12

  5698 readers By David S. Atkinson After all the stories I’ve read by Etgar Keret, I keep thinking that there is no way he can keep this up. There is just no way that he can keep writing stories that are so unlike anything else I read, stories more full of compassion, tenderness, and absurdity than I’ve ever