"We're All Dying In Increments": Ebert Responds To Esquire Profile By Irin Carmon | February 18, 2010 | 3:20pm Latest Copy to clipboard × Copy Link Facebook Reddit Bluesky 0 “If [writer Chris Jones] took a certain elegiac tone, you know what? I might have, too…It was true. I didn’t need polite fictions,” says Ebert of his Esquire profile. But he doesn’t want his readers thinking he’s dying imminently. [CST] Join the discussion... Keep scrolling for more great stories.