The Distaste of Martin Amos

"I'm the only person that I know doesn't, didn't at least have a youthful flirtation with Martin Amos," he says. "But part of my distaste for him was his existence in a circle of people ... He Hitchens, Ian McEwen, Julian Barnes, a couple of other people." The smugocracy of England had something about their self-regard and assertion of superiority, Abe writes.