How sorry I am that Martin Amis has already left us two years ago now. I had already written about him (under the nickname Stanlio) because he helped me discover truths that usually aren’t told, not even at school. I’ve read many of his books and essays, and now I’m almost done with this semi-biographical “novelized” work in which he tells his own story and also talks about his writer friends (including his father Kingsley). To be honest, it carries on the autobiography he began with “Experience” twenty years earlier.

So, I’m two hundred pages away from finishing this interesting “Inside Story” and I have to admit that I really regret having to part ways with this remarkable writer. I recommend him to everyone who loves Amis and writers like Bellow, Hitchens, Roth, etc., while to everyone else I’ll just say: you have no idea what you’re missing out on by not reading Sir Martin Louis Amis—and that’s all…