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...curious - how did it work? Here you've just finished up Koba the Dread [a non-fiction work about the horrors of the Stalin era], and - what? You weren't done with Russia...
...Like everyone else, I was politicized, or repoliticized, freshly kitted out, by September 11th. I think I wrote Koba really to give myself a political education. In lieu of literary criticism - I find I haven't done much of that at all since Sept. 11th. But I've written almost a sort of book-length amount of journalism, and a couple of stories about September 11th and all that implies, that era beginning then. And the novel I'm working on now has an Islamic theme...
...right, not just the son of old-school lion Kingsley Amis. But as any Martin Amis fan knows, the London literary world seethes with vicious jealousy, so when one of its celebs stumbles, the rest of the pack attacks. Last year, Amis' nonfictional study of Josef Stalin, Koba the Dread, caused more than a few critics to conclude that the once invincible writer had begun to lose the plot. His publishers added to the fury this year by refusing to let reviewers see Yellow Dog unless they signed a vow of silence until it is safely in bookstores; some took...
...curious." Koba said, staring at Molokov...
Shaking a threatening finger at Molokov, Koba suddenly let his head drop into a plate full of green peas and immediately fell asleep...