When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Tom Bissell INSIDE STORY By Martin Amis Seventeen years ago, I waited in line at the 92nd Street ...
In 1987, when I was at university studying English literature, Martin Amis came to town for a reading and signing at the student bookstore. He was a literary celebrity, this being an era in which ...
His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself. The party-boy persona is so stale that these antics now elicit more pity than ...
In Martin Amis’s memoir Experience (to my mind, his finest book), there is an account of an altercation with Salman Rushdie over the merits of the prose of Samuel Beckett. Amis writes: I really do ...
From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...
Martin Amis, England's most famous living novelist, has just moved from London to the United States. Julian Broad Here’s Martin Amis, one of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of our time ...
Novels they fully are, too, and those who know both them and me will also know that they are firmly unautobiographical, but at the same time every word of them inevitably says something about the ...
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