Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Great Regulars: "Lucky Jim" also loosed in Kingsley [Amis]

an almost unceasing flood of productivity--poems, essays and journalism, as well as novels. At the end of his life, when he was suffering the effects of a lifetime of hard drinking and possibly of early Alzheimer's, he was unable to give up the habit of hours at the typewriter, even if it was just to type the word "seagulls" over and over.

from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: The Amis Inheritance

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