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Martin Amis explores lived experiences, evokes people important to him and reflects on writing as the art of telling and making sense of stories. Are we facing some fictionalized memories? Faced with a novel based on episodes from one's own life? Faced with an essay on the power of literature? Before the review of a literary career and a life? This ambitious project, written without a net and without restrictions, is all this and a few other things. Three fundamental figures for the author as a person and as a writer parade through these pages: the mentor Saul Bellow in his last years of life, the friend and companion of so many adventures Christopher Hitchens faced with his early death, and the lonely, sullen and brilliant Philip Larkin whose poetry has always accompanied Amis. Other writers also appear, including Father Kingsley, and also the sister who died too soon from problems with alcohol, and the devilish love affairs of youth, and family life with wife and daughters, England and the United States, terrorism, anti-Semitism and especially the word, literature...