Unsurprisingly, I have an antipathy for so much of Martin Amis’, but this was a very good interview I spotted in John Hudson’s Telegraph. I’ve pretty much finished my year of modern novels now, and am much closer to appreciating and sympathising with the thought and vividness of life in the impression and grasp of it that these novelists explore. So, without agreeing with any more of it, I’m much further now than I was from the uncultured evangelical, disinterested and not willing to waste time and effort getting inside these attitudes that seem so unsatisfactory. He’s got a profound articulation of some very real things, and I need to keep making space for literature old and new if I want to understand how different groups and times engage with the world. If only I could understand what was true deeply enough to ever write myself…