Thursday, December 08, 2016

Martin Amis: Within A Generation Literary Culture As We Know It Now Will Be Gone

 

Zadie Smith said to me years ago, “Everything we think of as literary culture will be gone in a generation and a half.” She said, “It will last your time, but it won’t last mine.” I don’t think it will ever disappear, but it will shrink. It will go back to what it was when I started out, which is a minority interest sphere, which some people happen to be very interested in.

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