A review by pcastleton
Inside Story by Martin Amis

5.0

I found reading this to be like uncorking a ridiculously unaffordable bottle of wine and being treated to the entire bottle! I've read several criticisms, but I wouldn't change any of this fictionalized autobiographical novel interspersed memoirs of colleagues and essays on writing. Some find the recounting of his amalgamated former lover to be chauvinistic, or his treatment of Bellow, Larkin, and Hitchens to be too morose. I emphatically disagree. I've read no one criticize his instructions on writing, with the exception of a former student of his that apparently had an axe to grind. Show me better!