‘You’ve never opened a newspaper?’

‘Yes probably,’ said Jed good naturedly, but in fact he had no memory of ever doing so. He managed to visualise piles of Figaro Magazine on a coffee table, in his dentist’s waiting room; but his dental problems had been solved a long time ago. In any case he…

Everyone needs to be reading Houellebecq all the time. Bret thinks so, too.