Carla Carlisle pays tribute to the late Martin Amis, who died last month.
Towards the end of his life, Chekhov said that everything he read seemed to him ‘not short enough’. I know the feeling, and I’ll try to keep this short. When the Russian writer said that I don’t know — I heard it from Martin Amis who, when asked about ageing, agreed with Chekhov.
Amis was referring to writing, however, not reading and not to life. Although he feared the ‘tsunami of…
