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GET LIT (ALL WEEKEND LONG): Win a copy of Christopher Hitchens' Hitch-22

POSTED: Sunday, June 20, 2010, 2:00 PM

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.

Twelve, 424 pp., $26.99, June 2

Good morning, stalkers of Critical Mass, desirers of free books. Today we're starting off with Christopher Hitchens, whose new Hitch-22: A Memoir details the writer's private life. Read on for Natalie Hope McDonald's review:

Hitch 22 flashes back often to the writer's early days of torment. Hitchens paints himself as a weakling in knickers, lousy at sports, who for most of his life struggles with his mother's suicide. Grief is later replaced with heavy drinking, debating and Hemingway-esque globe-trotting with close friends who include writers Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie. The high-energy memoir, while plenty self-indulgent, follows the writer as a young boy into manhood. It's peppered with a heady mix of boarding-school high jinks, quests for social justice and rigorous examinations of God, politics and America, all the while vividly recounting the "lacerating, howling" moments in his life where the "private and the political had intersected."

To win a copy of Hitch-22, answer the following trivia question:

In 2008, Christopher Hitchens was in the running for a National Magazine Award. To whom did he lose?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Hitch-22" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this afternoon: We're giving away copies of These Children Who Come At You With Knives and Hollywood Hellraisers. [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:21 a.m.]: Congratulations to Cal, who guessed correctly that Matt Taibbi beat out Hitchens for the '08 prize.

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