From a New York Times review by Dwight Garner of  the book by John Walsh titled “Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World”:

In an essay for The New Republic in 2012, Martin Amis told what happened — or rather, what didn’t happen — when his first novel, “The Rachel Papers,” was published in 1973:

There was no launch party and no book tour; there were no interviews, no profiles, no photo shoots, no signings, no readings, no panels, no onstage conversations, no Woodstocks of the Mind in Hay-on-Wye, in Toledo, in Mantova, in Paraty, in Cartagena, in Jaipur, in Dubai; and there was no radio and no television.