From: stephenjones
Category: Amis
Date: 6/29/99
Time: 12:44:19 PM
Remote Name: 130.159.44.62
From The Guardian <<http://www.guardian.co.uk/>> Sunday June 27, 1999
Alex Garland is trying to give up smoking, but he makes an exception for interviews, so he tucks one behind his ear before we start and after 10 minutes is already cadging a Greek roll-up from a waiter ...
... Before he became a novelist, he had imagined that writers moved in a 'literary' world. 'I used to read about Julian Barnes and Martin Amis playing snooker with each other, and I thought that was what it might be like,' he says. 'But it isn't really, of course..."