4. John Haffenden, Novelists in Interview (London: Methuen, 1985) 13-14. Amis has written that one of the lucky accidents of Saul Bellow's career was his residence in Chicago, whose citizens "have accepted money as the only `vital substance'....Such distortions, which include an aggressive, even a disgusted philistinism, provide the writer with a wonderfully graphic reversal of human values." See The Moronic Inferno (London: Penguin, 1987) 9.
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