(1993) is Martin Amis’s third nonfiction book and his second collection of essays, reviews and interviews. Like its predecessor,
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America(1986), it is lively, impressionistic, and sometimes funny and insightful, especially about literature. Where
Infernocontained, an introduction followed by 27 pieces (not in chronological order) first published, between 1977 and 1985, mainly in the
Observer,
Visitingcontains an introduction and 33 pieces (again not in chronological order) first published between 1976 and 1992. 14 pieces appeared in the
Observer, three in
Esquireand the rest in a variety of newspapers and journals such as the
Evening Standard,
Sunday Times/
Telegraph,
New Statesmanand
Vogue. Amis has…
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