Martin Amis: Father like Son

Martin Amis has been up to his usual tricks by talking to anyone who will listen. The move always coincides with the release of one of his books, and must undoubtedly keep his publishers happy. They might as well send the marketing team home.

This month, it appears the shameless Amis-PR-machine has worked overtime. Anybody with eyes will have seen the countless interviews he has given to the national, and even regional, press. These are often followed up, the next day, with 'exclusive' revelations from an old flame claiming to be the skinny one in his latest book - The Pregnant Widow.

Here at Tally Ho Towers we have picked our favourite Amis-mumbling. It came this week in comments made to the Guardian, in which Amis Jr announced he is his father. You can read into that what you will - but the crazy motherfucker went to town on this one.

'Relax: I'm already Kingsley,' Amis Jr claimed. 'In truth, this is easily the most unusual thing about me. I am the only hereditary novelist in the anglophone literary corpus.' Yawn. He also went on to claim he is the Prince Charles of English letters. But then he could have just been drunk, he is his father after all!