On the uncharacteristically consensus-driven seventh episode of a usually contentious new podcast, co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen linger on the bitter virtues and delicious vices of Martin Amis’s third novel Success. Topics discussed include brotherhood; decadence; incest; murder; suicide; the hatred of roommates; time and novelistic structure; the geography of London; yobs; toffs; doubles; inversions; sisters; exes; anatomy; day jobs; impotence; baldness; sexual despair; sexual fulfillment; Elizabeth Jane Howard; Kingsley Amis; Nabokov; Bellow; Roth; Rushdie; Ishiguro; McEwan; Hitchens; levels of darkness; nihilism; the imagination of interior spaces; lies; euphemisms; class hierarchies and their collapse; teeth and the price of fixing them; provinciality; Mid-Atlanticism; transitional novels; ambition; reputations, their deaths and rebirths; the revelation and concealment of character through voice; attraction and repulsion; prose styles quiet and loud; what it means to be tonto; and much more. Thank you for listening.