CAROL Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.”
Stephen Phillips was doing dishes and listening to the podcast “A Life in Biography” one evening last fall when he learned why some people were not responding to his emails.
He is writing a book for W.W. Norton about the writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011.
But Carol Blue-Hitchens, the author’s widow, and Steve Wasserman, his literary agent, were not planning to participate in Phillips’s project, the podcast explained, and they encouraged family, friends and colleagues not to talk to him either.
“We are aware that a self-appointed would-be biographer, one Stephen Phillips, is embarked on a book on Christopher,” they wrote in an email, which The New York Times reviewed.
“We read his proposal and are dismayed by the coarse
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