Martin Amis Q & A

       In New York David Wallace-Wells has a lengthy Q & A as New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline. [Note that they seem to have mis-printed the interview, with the first two questions misplaced at the very bottom of the page.]
       Amis doesn't help his New York street cred with observations such as:

Those risky bits like the Lower East Side and Alphabet Land are now chic.

       (For non-New Yorkers: it's Alphabet City (named after the avenues that run there -- A, B, C, D). Which, by the way, is in the Lower East Side. But it's also cruel of neither Wallace-Wells nor New York to help the guy out here and correct him -- though maybe they all live out in Brooklyn too and only have limited familiarity with downtown as well .....)
       One also looks forward to reports of Amis' first confrontation with law enforcement -- maybe a stop-'n'-frisk, to even out those annoying statistics ... ? -- as he opines:

The police in America are, to my senses, quite fascistic -- you know, immediate end to all humor, end of all human contact; it's a real assertion of authority in a way that's very rare in England.

       And I'm not sure he's studied enough case law to spout stuff such as:

That's a good metaphor for what the Supreme Court is always doing -- finding in favor of Hitler. Cute legalism, pedantry, anti-common sense.

       Still, overall: pretty tame stuff compared to what the British press get out of him.