Who was the most influential author of the 2000s? (aside JK Rowling ofc)

some people are not gonna like it, but zadie smith is definitely one of them

Marilynne Robinson. Seems like half of contemporary fiction is copycat of her

Checked. He was based and wittier and better-spoken than anyone here.

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>wittier and better-spoken than anyone here.
He really wasn't.

Dumb Johnny Foreigners fell hook line and sinker for the accent meme. He was thick as pigshit.

Hitchens is Boris Johnson for people who do coke. Plummy voiced public schoolboy with a sufficient smattering of wit and classical allusion to create a dazzle for people not from that world

>implying the autists here could outwit him or extemporize better

>thick as pigshit
Hmm.

Most couldn't but I'm the exception.

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Cristopher Hitchens was unironically one of the worst literary works I've ever read in my entire life, and I've read a lot.

So overrated, his fame is only due to his charisma, and nothing else. He is a low iq intellectual, terrible writer (speaks the exact same way he writes), and a terrible influence

In my opinion his anti-god stuff, (the mother Theresa critique excepting) was his least interesting output. He was such an amazingly erudite and literary intellectual that these endless and unresolvable arguments were really beneath him. His short books on Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, George Orwell as well as his essays and contributions to public access television (lol he was so ridiculously patient responding to schitzos and your average american anti-commie peabrain) will live on forever.

I'm particularly thankful to the guy for turning me on to so many great books through his writing and constant name dropping.
>The Captured Mind
>The Strange Death of Liberal England
>Darkness at Noon
>Safe Area Gorazde
>The Bridge Over the Drina
>Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Unfortunately because of him I was subjected to that Susan Sontag dirge "The Volcano Lover". Also his autobiography kind of sucked.

>Which one?

Are you sure you don't mean Peter Hitchens?

It unironically might be Kevin Williamson

I'm genuinely curious, when has he ever said anything of value when it comes to religion

His critique is such a basic bitch millenial esc approach to religion, i doubt he's ever read any of the church fathers who spent their lives dedicated to the philosophy of god.

also he died of throat cancer lol good riddance

Stephenie Meyer

2010s
Suzanne Collins and fifty shades woman

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Oh I see that you're a buttravaged christcuck who can't see the man's many other qualities and a lifetime of work because he wrote a book nearer the end of his life and did some debates which rustled your jimmies.

I don't rate his anti-religious stuff btw. Thankfully the rest of his writing stands on its own.

All the poshos were at. Either giving (not gay) or receiving (very gay).

Must have been the classical education.

he was a neo con cuckold that opposed imperialism when it suits him. he supported the Yugoslav war of independence which was a western orcastrated coup, and he would've probably supported what has been going on in Ukraine for the past 10 years.

his anti religious writings truly showed his persona on soul level - he was just a trend follower, opposed the war in Iraq cause it was the trendy anti establishment thing to do, opposed religion cause it was trendy etc.. no original thought, nothing that contributes to anyone but his selfish interest.

>Yugoslav war of independence which was a western orcastrated coup

Oh come on.

He wrote a book attacking Mother Theresa, he railed against both Clintons during the 90s, and he SUPPORTED the Iraq war. In the circles he moved in, none of these views were trendy.

He was the safe contrarian. Nothing genuinely radical otherwise it should be branded as wrong think, like The Passion of the Christ.

>church fathers
Knew it.
>doubt he's ever read
Wrong.
>trend follower
Wrong.

>He was the safe contrarian
I won't deny that. Still he was a brilliant polemicist with a far greater breadth of knowledge and literary expertise than most gave him credit for. Read some of his literary essays and it's obvious.

>Read some of his literary essays and it's obvious.
I will, I'll give it an honest shot, but I'm not expecting much more than his pretence of wit.

I'm not sure he was so safe. He went into war-zones quite often, got arrested many a time, inveighed against the left and right alike, alienating friends and acquaintances, and I have no doubt he would be hold the current iteration of the left in great opprobrium. You can see the potential in a lot of his writing and talks - especially about feminism, Israel, circumcision, mass immigration, thought-police, Islam, post-modernism, his qualms about abortion, his opposition to gun-control, and on and on. He was unique and a man of letters par excellence - hence the jealousy with which many on this board so often seethe about him. He also got laid more than most here - even if the accent helped.

And the fact that his brother is equally based - though on the other side of the political spectrum - should say a lot. It's in the blood. The God Is Not Great Christopher Hitchens is the worst, but unfortunately that is the one most remembered.

>and I have no doubt he would be hold the current iteration of the left in great opprobrium.
He does, since he was in all those rekt feminist videos back in the day.

He wrote an article about why women aren't funny for the Atlantic.

The magazine got lots of responses from angry women so he doubled down by writing another article and also doing a video.

b a s e d

>does
Has there some resurrection of which I've yet to be informed?

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been*
The corresponding video got removed from Vanity Fair's* YouTube channel.

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>I suppose I should've written another article about how some women apparently can't even read.

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Great writers are always with us.

he was very entertaining, charming, and skilled in rhetoric
thats where the buck stops

He doesn't have to be alive to cause seething.

Thatcher was "surprisingly sexy" – and after meeting her and arguing over Rhodesia, "I eventually conceded the point and even bowed slightly to emphasize my acknowledgment."

“No,” she said. “Bow lower!” Smiling agreeably, I bent forward a bit farther. “No, no,” she trilled. “Much lower!” By this time, a little group of interested bystanders was gathering. I again bent forward, this time much more self-consciously. Stepping around behind me, she unmasked her batteries and smote me on the rear with the parliamentary order paper that she had been rolling into a cylinder behind her back. I regained the vertical with some awkwardness. As she walked away, she looked over her shoulder and gave an almost imperceptibly slight roll of the hip while mouthing the words “Naughty boy!”

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I meant: >he would *hold* the current iteration of the left in great opprobrium - not that they would hold him in opprobrium, though I'm sure they would recriprocate.

>not that they would hold him in opprobrium
But they do. The left still feels betrayed by him over Iraq and some of his anti-progressive views.

comes to another country just to disrespect its politicians and people

absolutely credited post

Speaking real-time about literary matters, I don't think anyone who posts on this board could outwit him.
I am personally offended by someone who suggests that Boris Johnson has anywhere near the knowledge, memory, appreciation, and insight into literary matters that Hitchens has. They see one clip of him clumsily reciting some ancient poetry in Latin and they think that translates to a well-rounded education or erudition.
>the anti-god stuff was his least interesting output
100%. It's unfortunate that he had to take that route to make some real money and become famous. Most people don't realize he was grinding it out as a journalist, critic, and commentator for 35years before he wrote God is Not Great.
Perfect example right here of a guy who can't get over the anti-religion talk to assess the guy for his actual life's work.
Have you read any of his work from before 2001?

Wrong. See pic' attached hereto as an example. He also became a citizen and not only considered the American Revolution to be the only one still ongoing, but also considered the American system to be the best-conceived.

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Doubt.
youtu.be/_LuwxtJM2Rw
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I don't think he did a book on Adam Smith. He did do one on Jefferson though. Also, I remember reading somewhere that he had been working on a book on Proust but then 9/11 happened and he chucked the project aside. I wonder if the book still exist somewhere in an unfinished form.

>They see one clip of him clumsily reciting some ancient poetry in Latin and they think that translates to a well-rounded education or erudition.
It does.

That's retarded. It's clumsy and hollow and he hasn't made any other indication of good education or wit before or since.

>anything I don't like is Fascism/National Socialism
>bombing of foreign countries is good when WE do it
I can't stand these videos

If anything, Boris had a better education than Hitchens. But they are peas in a pod, using their well worn patter to gloss over their shortcomings. The London media is infested with middle aged men like them
In twenty years some noob will make similar comments about Douglas Murray, because he *speaks so well*, muh erudition, muh British public school persona, because he's a little more articulate than the usual numpties on US cable news

He was a neolib glowie of the worst kind and his writing was interspersed with appeals to moral imperative.

Fair point about Douglas Murray, but Boris has a smattering of indicators that he's an erudite person suffocated by bushels of boorishness and cheap wit.
Take away his stances on US foreign policy and god, and start over.

This nigger supported war in Europe he's a Blairite repackaged for the proto-breadtube aka Gen X tards.