The story had everything: money, betrayal, secrets, jealousy, and, of course, teeth.
written by Amis’ friend Jonathan Wilson and published in February. Wilson got a cavalcade of England’s best writers to comment on the situation. Even now I cannot resist quoting at length.
“The question of the teeth is really out of order,” said Rushdie. “Byatt makes him sound like his rich American girlfriend told him in some Hollywood way to have his teeth fixed so he’d look better in photos. Whereas it’s a very serious medical problem.”“She really bloody well should know better,” said Will Self of Byatt. “Somebody should put her on their knee and smack her bottom.”
Byatt herself weighed in again. “I am told that my own sales are considerably larger than his,” she told Wilson. “I am not wandering around saying, ‘May I please have 500,000 pounds.’” “In England there’s this idea that writers should be underpaid,” Amis told Wilson. “If you’re interested in rich people you’d do better to go and visit a few publishers. They’re the ones with the big houses, but no one seems to get that.”The Information
in March—just two months after making the deal, and just four months after that first catty story about Amis’ dental work. The publisher told Amis that it was important to capitalize on the publicity. “But hang on, I thought,” he wrote in his memoir. “All the publicity wasIn some ways the novel never had a chance. It never had a chance to be edited . It certainly never had a chance to escape all the information readers already knew about it.
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