My Salinger Year on London Fields: “I put on water for pasta and grabbed a book off his desk—Martin Amis's London Fields, which I'd taken out of the library the previous week, only to have Don claim it.”
Hitch-22 on Money: “you must read here of the Penguin edition of Money, where John Self tries to get laid for pay... There are many, many reasons why Money is the Great English Novel of the 1980s.”
How to Be a Heroine on The Information: “I edited other people’s writing, not even at a proper publishing house but at a vanity press (allegedly the one that inspired Martin Amis’s The Information).”