From: James Diedrick
Category: Amis's Contemporaries
Date: 7/8/99
Time: 10:35:19 PM
Remote Name: 147.124.99.24
Agreed. A.S. Byatt must be the most overrated fiction writer on the planet. I don't usually plug my own work, but here's what I said about her latest collection of short stories, *Elementals*--which I toned down at the request of the editors (adding the first two sentences, taking out the title "Designer Fiction.":