A World Without Martin Amis
The small, cold shock of loneliness upon hearing of the great British comic writer’s death
Sometime in the late ’90s I went to see Martin Amis read at a branch of the bookstore chain Waterstones (long gone) in downtown Boston. It was Amis and Will Self—a proper lexically charged white-man road show.
The two authors performed elegantly, with savage aplomb, etc., and when the Q&A came round, Amis. I was wondering, is he a relation of yours?”
