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"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith

"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith

Update: 2023-07-31
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Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith, tells Jack Aldane his story of meeting (and smoking with) Martin Amis, his reflections on Amis's lifelong role as "media whipping boy", and why he chose to talk about 'Dead Babies', Amis's second novel published in 1975.



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"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith

"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith