Reviews, discussions, parodies of Experience
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and join an ongoing discussion of Experience, check out the Slate
Book Club thread initiated by Inigo Thomas; to read a parody of Experience
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 | "Martin
Amis: The Man Who Fell to Earth." Boyd
Tonkin's perceptive, penetrating review of Experience, and the life
and career it encompasses (The Independent,
13 May 2000). |
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| Novelist
Marianne Wiggins reviews Experience
for The Times (London) )18 May 2000). |
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| "My
favourite Martin." Tim Adams reviews Experience for the Guardian
& Observer online (21 May 2000). |
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| "Amis
and Son." Erik Tarloff reviews Experience for the San
Francisco Chronicle (28 May 2000). |
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| "The
Young Turk." James Wood reviews Experience for The Guardian
& Observer online, 20 May 2000. |
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| "Night
Train Through a Dark Wood." John Walsh reviews Experience
for The Independent online (21 May 2000). |
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| "Rolling
Back the Years." Terence Blacker reviews Experience for The
Times (London)(21 May 2000). |
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| "Author
Strikes Back With a Song of Experience." Kevin McCardle
reviews Experience for the Herald (Scotland), 23 May 2000). |
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| "The
Best of You is Here and I Still Have It." Victoria Glendinning
reviews Experience for the Telegraph (29 May 2000). |
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| "Will
They Survive?" Writing in the New Statesman, D.J. Taylor
takes the long view of Kingsley and Martin--and reviews The Letters of
Kingsley Amis and Experience while he's at it. |
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| "Experience
to Sink Your Teeth In." David Sexton reviews Experience for The
Evening Standard (22 May 2000). |
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| "Making a Name for Oneself."
Julie Burchill's vicious attack on Amis and Experience for The
Spectator. |
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| "A
Feast at the Amis Table." Karl Miller reviews The Letters of
Kingsley Amis and Experience for the Sunday Herald
(Scotland), 25 May 2000. |
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| Andrew
Roe reviews Experience for salon.com (26 May 2000). |
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| "Lucky Amis." Frederic
Raphael's self-reflexive review of Experience for the Los
Angeles Times. |
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| "Amis
Accused of exploiting Fred West Link." Richard Brooks, arts editor
of the Times (London), interviews Marian Partington, who is upset
about what she calls Martin Amis's "exploitation" of her sister in
Experience (11 June 2000). |
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| "Famous
Amis." Daniel Handler of the Village Voice Literary Supplement
casts a critical eye on Experience (June 2000). |
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| "Life
With a Famous Dad." Paul Gray reviews Experience for Time
(19 June 2000). |
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| Martin
Amis writes a fan letter to Britney Spears on the occasion of her memoir.
From "The Britney Papers," a series of fan letters from Norman
Mailer, J.D. Salinger, George Plimpton, Camille Paglia--and Martin Amis.
Brought to you by Modern Humorist,
20 June 2000. |
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| "Amis's
Memoir Confides and Conceals." Lisa Zeidner posts her
review of Experience, originally published in the Philadelphia
Inquirer
(June 25, 2000). |
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| "Fathers
and Sons." Peter Craven reviews Experience for the
theage.com.au (27 June 2000). |
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| "But
First--Are You Experienced?" James Parker's free-associational
account of Amis's reading from Experience at Wordsworth Books in
Cambridge (28 June 2000). |
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| "Working
Class Monster." Graham Joyce, writing for salon.com, analyzes the Partington family's
unhappiness over Amis's representation of Lucy Partington in Experience
(29 June 2000). |
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| "Martin Amis in Cyberspace."
James Diedrick on Experience and the stages of Amis's career (August
2000). |
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| "Sons
and Lovers." Novelist John Banville reviews Experience and The
Letters of Kingsley Amis for The Irish Times (14 August 2000). |
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| "What
Kingsley Can Teach Martin." Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews Experience
for The Atlantic Monthly (September 2000). |
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| Paraic O'Donnell's online review of Experience
(January
2001).
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| Betty-Jeanne
Korson reviews Experience for AllReaders.com
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