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My Martin Amis

Jack Aldane

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/46j. Total Éps: 22

Personal stories from writers, critics and publicists about the life and legacy of late English novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023).

Host and producer: Jack Aldane

Music: 'June' by Nigel Martin

Twitter: @mymartinamis

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My Martin Amis LIVE - Sunday 23 March, 2025

samedi 5 avril 2025 • Durée 01:41:03

On Sunday 23 March 2025, listeners of the podcast gathered in Central London to watch a live Amisathon, featuring 8 panellists and the show's host.

The panel included former guests as well as a couple of new faces: Leo Robson, Alys Denby, Finn McRedmond, James Marriott, Zoe Strimpel, Sam Leith, Vincenzo Barney and John Niven.

It was a great success. Thank you to the 90+ ticket-holders who attended, to our wonderful panel, and to the stage team at 21Soho.

Relive the event or listen for the first time in this episode, ripped straight from the boards of the stage at the venue.

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"I should've gone to lunch with Martin Amis, because by that point I loved him." Carol Morley

vendredi 24 janvier 2025 • Durée 01:04:51

Martin Amis's 1997 novel Night Train followed a trifecta of bestsellers: Money, London Fields and The Information.

Written as a dark parody of the noir genre, Night Train follows female detective Mike Hoolihan on an investigation into the suicide of a woman named Jennifer Rockwell. Her death is near total mystery to everyone who knew her, including Hoolihan. Prior to her death, Rockwell appeared to live a perfect life accentuated by her own physical beauty. Stranger still is the suggestion, based on the forensics, that Rockwell had shot herself in the head three times.

Night Train was adapted to screen in 2018 by film director, screenwriter and producer Carol Morley. In this episode, Morley speaks to Jack about how the opportunity came to her, her first impressions of the novel, and how in the process of adapting it she found a deep connection with both Hoolihan and Amis. The adaptation was named Out of Blue, a though it received mixed reviews, Amis emailed Carol to say he was pleased it had been made.

Carol speaks candidly about the process of collating the images around which to build the story, her research into American police investigations into homicide, and her last thoughts about the mark Amis left on her as a reader and film director.

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"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott

vendredi 24 novembre 2023 • Durée 40:54

Columnist, podcast and book reviewer for The London Times James Marriott joins Jack Aldane on Episode 5 to discuss The War Against Cliché , an anthology of Martin Amis's reviews and essays from 1971 to 2000. It was the book that changed James's approach to life, and especially writing.

James tells Jack why, despite his never having been a devotee to Amis the novelist, Amis's journalism contains by far some of the cleverest, funniest and most galvanising opinions on literature you’ll ever encounter.

The War Against Cliché remains, he says, the book which makes him want to write more than any other, and without which producing book reviews would be a whole lot less fun.

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"Not everyone even remotely has Amis's descriptive ability." Zoe Strimpel

vendredi 20 octobre 2023 • Durée 45:54

Gender scholar, author and columnist Zoe Strimpel tells Jack Aldane about the "sexual sentimental education" she gleaned from Martin Amis’s novels as a young woman battling teenage angst.

In particular, they discuss Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers, which introduced Zoe to the dark corners of male heterosexuality through Amis's burgeoning comic prose style, and how the book's portrayal of sex compares with the rules of attraction today.

Is the novel's insatiably horny hero Charles Highway now an extinct breed, or is his academic approach to sex a precursor to the modern male propensity to overthink?

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"You have to get into Amis, and you have to get past Amis." Janan Ganesh

lundi 4 septembre 2023 • Durée 01:02:57

Columnist for The Financial Times Janan Ganesh, speaks to Jack Aldane about the London he grew up in during the early 90s, and which is captured in one of Martin Amis's most celebrated novels, London Fields. Janan explains why, for years, he has consistently revisited the book (of which he owns multiple copies), and how he once found himself compulsively picking it up every day to consume 50-pages in each sitting.

They discuss the characters in the 1989 novel, including those Janan believes the story could have done without, and the one he believes is the greatest literary creation to roam London since the age of Dickens.

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"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith

lundi 31 juillet 2023 • Durée 49:34

Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith, tells Jack Aldane his story of meeting (and smoking with) Martin Amis, his reflections on Amis's lifelong role as "media whipping boy", and why he chose to talk about 'Dead Babies', Amis's second novel published in 1975.

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"For my generation, he filled the skyline." Matt d'Ancona

vendredi 30 juin 2023 • Durée 34:35

Author, award-winning columnist and Editor at Large for The New European, Matt d'Ancona, tells the show's host Jack Aldane his story of discovering Martin Amis in the heady 1980s as one of a generation of what he calls "Fukuyama's Babies".

Matt choses passages to read from Amis's memoir 'Experience', published in 2000.

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Welcome to My Martin Amis with Jack Aldane

mercredi 14 juin 2023 • Durée 01:39

In My Martin Amis, British journalist and host of The Booking Club podcast Jack Aldane talks to writers, critics and publicists who have something personal to say about the life and legacy of the last English novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023).

Join him as they tell the story of how they discovered Amis's prose, the book that made them a fan, and what the author taught them about life and literature

Subscribe now and listen to a new episode of My Martin Amis each month, wherever you get your podcasts. Stay up to date on Twitter with @mymartinamis and find out who will be Jack's first guest.

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"He opened the door, holding three darts. Amis was quite mischievous." Anthony Quinn

lundi 2 décembre 2024 • Durée 52:26

English novelist Anthony Quinn has met and interviewed Martin Amis on several occasions. Their first encounter followed the publication of London Fields in 1989, the second during the publicity storm that came with Amis's 1995 novel The Information.

In this episode, he and Jack discuss Amis's last novel, Inside Story, published in 2020. Although Anthony struggled with it in his first reading, he later came to consider it a masterful valedictory that encompasses all the best and worst of Amis as a man, and as a writer.

Described by some as 'The Big Book of Mart', Inside Story is part memoir, part novel, and part writing manual.

As well as revising Amis's final words of wisdom and warning to writers, Anthony and Jack cover the great romantic and literary loves of Amis's life, from Saul Bellow and his godfather Phillip Larkin, to the inimitable Christopher Hitchens. Crucially, Anthony reveals who he believes Amis loved most of all the people in his life.

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"Martin Amis makes you alive to the possibilities of prose." David Patrikarakos

vendredi 13 septembre 2024 • Durée 43:44

British author, journalist and war correspondent David Patrikarakos was due to leave the UK for Athens in the summer of 2024. Before he left, he discovered My Martin Amis, and quickly got in touch to ask to tell his story about how he became, as he put it, "mildly obsessed" with the late novelist.

On this episode, David and Jack sit down together early one morning to revisit The Rachel Papers, Amis's first novel and one previously discussed on episode 4 with journalist and author Zoe Strimpel. David explains that he discovered the novel on his family bookshelf at the age of 14. The opening line from Charles Highway was a slam dunk: "simple and declarative and clever". From that point on, David was an Amis fan.

David also describes an antique copy of Hamlet he bought that once belonged to Amis as an undergraduate. The book contains Amis's marginalia. For more on that, you'll have to listen to the conversation. Needless to say, Amis was a precocious student who never stopped overachieving in later life, much to the chagrin of his global peers and critics.

David and Jack also discuss Amis's famous friendship with the late essayist Christopher Hitchens, with whom Amis shared much of his life, even the same cause of death. Were he to have the job of teaching a class of journalism students for a year, David says he would have no problem replacing Hitchens with Amis on the reading list. Amis's The War Against Cliche aside, being "alive to the possibilities of prose" is essential to any writer, he says. Yes, Amis can be over-prescriptive at times, but by letting him guide you for a period, you soon discover what it is writing does that no other art form can do.

The important thing, as ever, is to learn from Martin Amis, then go your own way.

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