"...it was Hitchens who introduced me to Bellow – as a reader. 'Look at Humboldt's Gift,' he told me, with a serious inclination of the head, on the staircase at the New Statesman, in (I think) 1977. I looked instead at The Victim, and after very few pages I felt a recognition threading itself through me, whose form of words (more solemn than exhilarated) went approximately as follows: 'Here is a writer I will have to read all of.'"
– Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir
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