Does anyone understand this?

What's this fascination with the Hitchens sibling rivalry? I thought Christopher's article in Vanity Fair was in dubious taste. If you've had a longstanding row with your brother, and are claiming that it has been built up by the media, and feel that the time has come to move on, surely it's more appropriate to approach him personally* than to write a big bloody one-sided article about it? I suppose I'm being terribly suburban, not wanting to wave dirty laundry in public, but it does seem odd.

And it's somehow even odder to have The Guardian pick up on it. "Ooh goody, let's have them kiss and make up - as a scoop for us!" How prurient. It's Hello! for the literati.
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* Though I believe Peter says Chris did write to him privately - but at the same time as publishing the article. Not quite private enough, to my mind.