"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith

Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Leith), tells Jack Aldane (twitter.com/jackaldane) his story of meeting (and smoking with) Martin Amis, his reflections on Amis's lifelong role as "media whipping boy", and why he chose to talk about 'Dead Babies (waterstones.com/book/dead-babies/martin-amis/9…)', Amis's second novel published in 1975.

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