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Interview Martin Amis: `England is great. But America has real chaos, and that's what writers like' Everybody has an opinion about Martin Amis. But in a revealing interview, Britain's most controversial author explains himself to Deborah Orr
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There's an exchange in Martin Amis's 1995 novel The Information
that straightforwardly "says it all". Richard Tull, the serious
novelist, has found himself being interviewed on the radio in Chicago
as a last- minute stand-in for his old friend and arch-enemy, the
"sell-out" novelist Gwyn Barry.
Dub, the DJ, asks Richard what his novel is "trying to say".
"It's not trying to say anything. It's saying it."
"But what's it saying?"
"It's saying itself. For a hundred and fifty thousand words. I
couldn't put it any other way."
"Richard Tull, thank you very much."
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