Friday, April 20, at noon, Vanity Fair will be holding a memorial service for our friend and colleague Christopher Hitchens. Scheduled to pay tribute at the event are Hitchens’s friends and intimates such as Martin Amis, Christopher Buckley, Salman Rushdie, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Tom Stoppard, Ian McEwan, *Vanity Fair’*s Aimée Bell, and James Wood, among others. “In assembling a roster of speakers with deep belief in the power of the written word and the wisdom of nature and the universe, we hope to do an atom of justice to Christopher’s memory,” Graydon Carter said.

Vanity Fair will be posting updates from the ceremony on Twitter and Facebook, as well as publishing a more robust overview of tomorrow afternoon’s proceedings—including video of eulogies and speeches—on VanityFair.com. Share your own memories of Hitchens’s life and work on Twitter by Tweeting @VanityFair and using the hashtag #hitchens, or leave your thoughts and memories on our Facebook page.

In the meantime, *Vanity Fair’*s archive of Hitchens’s peerless essays is, as always, available here.