I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.
I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.