Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century—in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience—he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a pro...