Yeah, George Saunders seems like a nice guy from the interview I heard on the radio. But I'd bet if you asked him he'd say that Amis is a big influence: especially the execution of comic set-pieces. I personally enjoy their similarly clever "verbizing" of nouns and (literally) ironic names of places. people, and products.

BTW, what did Amis do? I'm just a rando who likes to read so I probably miss 99% of the lit world gossip. I am old enough to vaguely remember Larkin being posthumously cancelled which seemed like a tragedy since his poems were so great.