Martin Amis' "The Moronic Inferno" (1986)

London, England: Jonathan Cape (book, essays, 1st), 1986.
8.75" x 5.625" x 0.875", 208 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, 1st UK, ISBN 0-224-02385-3.

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis, as published by Jonathan Cape (London, England) in 1986.

This includes "William Burroughs: The Bad Bits", pp. 144-146, an acrid critique of Burroughs wrapped in a review of Eric Mottram's William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need, as published in the New Statesman in 1977.

Contents: 

• Introduction and Acknowledgments
• Saul Bellow and the Moronic Inferno
• The Killings in Atlanta
• The Case of Claus von Bulow
• Truman Capote: Knowing Everybody
• Philip Roth: No Satisfaction
• Elvis Presley: He Did It His Way
• Diana Trilling at Claremont Avenue
• Norman Mailer: The Avenger and the Bitch
• Palm Beach: Don't You Love It?
• Brian De Palma: The Movie Brute
• Here's Ronnie: On the Road with Reagan
• Mr. Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore
• Too Much Monkey Business: The New Evangelical Right
• Vidal v. Falwell
• Joseph Heller, Giantslayer
• Newspeak at Vanity Fair
• Kurt Vonnegut: After the Slaughterhouse
• Gloria Steinem and the Feminist Utopia
• William Burroughs: The Bad Bits
• Steven Spielberg: Boyish Wonder
• John Updike: Rabbitland and Bechville
• Joan Didion's Style
• In Hefnerland
• Paul Theroux's Enthusiasms
• Gay Talese: Sex-Affirmative
• Double Jeopardy: Making Sense of AIDS
• Saul Bellow in Chicago