The Life and Times of Christopher Riese

"The only thing I hated him for was being so good at writing," he says of fellow writer Chris Riese. "There is nothing even close to the relationship that I had and the respect that I desperately wanted from Christopher Hitchin's when he died, which is absolutely stunning to think it was 11 years ago." The pair wrote a column on Barack Obama's election as part of an ongoing series about their time together in New York before they moved back to Los Angeles.