In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the author recalls his 1970s conquest of London's ink-stained thickets, some disastrous "research" with Martin Amis at a New York bordello, and encounters with everyone from Ian McEwan to Thomas Pynchon to Margaret Thatcher
Amis harnessed a rapier wit to a Swiftian eye, a sharp ear, a peerless facility for linguistic construction and the imagination to create a world entirely his…
LONDON: In October 1963, a young British artist, fresh out of London’s Royal College of Art but already making a name for himself as a groundbreaking painter, traveled to Egypt, fulfilling an ambition to visit a country that had long fascinated him. David Hockney’s odyssey to the land of the pharaohs 60 years ago would prove to be a turning point in the nascent career of an