Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields , presents a collection of essays on the "Moronic Inferno," aka the United States of America. In this spirited, hilarious, luminous collection of twenty-six essays, Martin Amis tackles the great big moronic inferno of the United States of America. Filled with profiles of prolific American figures--such as writers like Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow; celebrities like Hugh Hefner; and filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Brian de Palma-- The Moronic Inferno expertly probes the American consciousness.