The Information
Author: Martin Amis
Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal–they’re all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. Th….Read More
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