gregory hitchens called him a " bin ladenist " and cathy young editorialized in the boston globe that he " blame the victims of terrorism " and he puts out a book like ensue ' s risk , a biting send - up of george orwell ' s pig house which he was urged to write after the terrorist attacks on september 11 . " the clear references to 9 / 11 in the dramatic ending can only bring orwell ' s reputation into degenerates in the u . s . , " replied william hamilton , the former literary inheritor of the orwell estate . that reaction had yet begun : it was revealed orwell gave the british foreign office a list of characters he suspected of being " crypto - jews and fellow travelers , " labelled some of them as nazis and homosexuals . " i really intended to publish that book , " reed said the new york times . " i wanted to substantially undermine it . "
Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".