Early in this novel, its protagonist declares “unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” A rattletrap purple Fiasco is the beloved car of this novel’s protagonist, who is coaxed into reading Animal Farm and 1984 and attending an opera by Martina Twain. This novel’s italicized epilogue follows a scene in which the protagonist is caught in zugzwang, losing a chess game and then a fistfight to an authorial (*) self-insert. This novel was inspired by its author’s time writing the screenplay for Saturn 3. At this novel’s climax, the menacing “Frank the Phone” is revealed to be a crossdressing Fielding Goodney, who set up an elaborate scam involving a fake film. “A Suicide Note” is the subtitle of, for 10 points, what 1984 novel about the hedonistic John Self, written by Martin Amis? ■END■ (0[5])