Briefly Self

"I realized I did not love him enough." -- Giancarlo Giannini, Darkness

Will Self' accepts culpability for his years as an addict, in his December Granta essay, as much as one can, without folding up guilt like a winter duvet vacuum packed in your space bag, a one dimension cube. My sense is that Hitchens could not do this with his variation of dying memoir that I've read so much of from the time I was a young girl.