My Martin Amis

"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith


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Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith, tells Jack Aldane his story of meeting Martin Amis, his reflections on Amis's lifelong role as "media whipping boy", and why he chose to talk about 'Dead Babies', Amis's second novel published in 1975.



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