Tina Brown

I loved sort of being in that office, you know, in the ISIS office.

hanging out, choosing the pictures, writing the captions.

I started to really love all that, you know.

So although I always thought that I would be a playwright eventually, it sort of graduated to doing that.

And I started writing and I wrote a piece that was picked up by the New Statesman.

They noticed it.

And that's when I was first assigned.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, journalism was just wildly...

exciting at that time.

And I was obsessed in that time with the New Statesman magazine when it was edited by the great Anthony Howard.

I used to rush to the sort of newsagent on Thursdays to get my copy of the New Statesman because at that time, everybody really good was writing for it.

So when I wrote this piece in ISIS that was admired by the editor of the New Statesman and he asked me to write for the New Statesman,

It was the most incredible thing that had ever happened to me.

And the new statesman at the time that I was writing for the literary department was Martin Amis, James Fenton, Julian Barnes, you know, Claire Tomlin.

I mean, it was just an amazing time when all these kind of young talents were.

were congregated in Great Turnstile Street.

And so coming into the office of the New Statesman was just incredible.

And that's where I met Martin Amis, who became a big boyfriend of mine at the time.

In fact, the way we bonded was he used to write for the New Statesman under the byline of Bruno Holbrook.