/lit/ - Literature

>am 24
>watching documentary about hitchens
>christopher hitchens was writing for the new statesmen at my age
>was the main spokesmen and organiser of protests
>reads and writes far more prolifically than I
>has already travelled to a wealth of countries

>I have never left my birth country
>can't can't get work as a journalist even though I'm qualified.
>read about Hitchen's bromance with Martin Amis
>have comparable relationship with my best friend who has recently moved overseas.
>instead of rallying myself i'm lying in bed reading Hitchen's 'Arguably' collection of essays whilst high on oxycontin.
>Can't stop crying

Someone come save me from myself.

I went through a phase where I bought all of his books, collections of essays and his memoir. When reading them, I was taking a Persuasive and Analytical writing course at uni. I'd finished reading about the same time my course finished and i'd noticed that my skill in academic writing had improved exponentially. Not only could I tell I had written better than ever, so did my tutors and I received full marks for 98 per cent of what I handed in.

tl;dr - read Christopher Hitchens when undertaking studies, your academic writing will thank you for it. Thanks Hitch!