 | "Reading Martin Amis."
Peg Eby-Jager writes a detailed account of the April
20 2004 Amis-Hitchens appearance at UCLA's "Our Favorite Writers" series. |
| "In the Palace of the End." Martin Amis's most recent
short story, published originally in the New Yorker (15 March 2004),
now
available at the Guardian online (17 April 2004). |
|
Martin Amis and James Wood discuss Saul Bellow on The Connection
(RealAudio file). |
| Amis to appear at Royal Festival Hall, 4
November 2003. |
| Yellow Dog--Amis's
forthcoming novel. |
| "The Palace
of the End"
(The Guardian, 4 March 2003): "The first war of the Age of
Proliferation will not be an oil-grab so much as an expression of pure power."
The Guardian has removed this link, but Jackson
Browne (yes, the singer/songwriter) has posted it on his web site. Ross Taylor
also analyzes the essay in the 4 March 2003
Guardian
summarizes it. |
| Amis speaks at "Is There a
Monster in the House?," the New Yorker Festival, 28 September
2002). |
| Excerpts from "Window on a Changed World" [Amis looks back on September
11, 2001]. Telegraph, 11 September 2002. |
| "The
Voice of the Lonely Crowd." From the Guardian lead-in: "After
September 11, writing fiction seemed a pointlessly indulgent exercise. But,
Martin Amis argues, against the deadly excesses of politics and religion,
the novel is a supremely rational undertaking" (1 June 2002). NOTE: click
here to read John Pilger's attack on this piece--and Amis--in the 17
June 2002 New Statesman. |
| "Age
Will Win." Amis reviews Richard Eyre's highly-praised film about
Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Alzheimer's disease, and "the tragedy of
time" (Guardian Unlimited, 21 December 2001). |
| "Fear and Loathing." Amis on September 11 (from the 18 September 2001 Guardian).
"Their aim was to torture tens of thousands, and to terrify hundreds of
millions. In this, they have succeeded." |
| "A
Rough Trade." Amis reports on his visit to the San Fernando Valley
porn industry for the 17 March 2001 Guardian (this
essay originally appeared as “Sex
in America” in Talk magazine (February
2001: 98-103, 133-35). |
|
Amis
discusses London Fields. An edited
transcript from BBC Radio 4's Book Club, first broadcast on Sunday 5th
August and repeated Thursday 9th August 2001. [From the BBC website: "You can hear
James Naughtie talk in full to Martin Amis about London Fields. You
will need RealPlayer
to hear audio on this page." |
| Amis in Chicago '01. A brief summary of Amis's
26 June reading from Experience at the Newberry Library. |
| Amis in Chicago '98. An account of Amis's appearance
at Barbara's Bookstore (3 February 1998), where he discussed Bill Clinton
and read from Night Train. |
|
Amis reads from Experience at the Commonwealth
Club of California (13 June 2000)
--- a transcript. |
| "My
Missing." An excerpt from the first chapter of Experience at the New York Times Book
Review (posted 28 May 2000). |
| "My
Missing." A longer excerpt from the first chapter of Experience,
at amazon.com. |
| An excerpt from Part I of Night
Train, from The Denver Post Online, 1997 ("I
am a police. That may sound like an unusual statement--or an unusual
construction. But it's a parlance we have . . ."). |
| An excert from Night
Train from The New York Times).
|
| "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" Amis at Harvard reading his essays
on Iron John and the politics of Philip Larkin's literary reputation,
30 January 1997 (a transcript). |
| Amis
reviews The Underworld, by Don DeLillo. The New York Times
Book Review Online, October 5, 1997. (NOTE: all of Amis's reviews for the New York
Times Book Review from 1978 to the present are available in the online Book Review
archives, although the paper's search engine can be difficult to use). |
| Amis reviews It Takes a Village, by Hillary Clinton.The Sunday Times [London], 17 March 1996. |
| "The
Mirror of Ourselves"--Time Magazine, September 15, 1997 ("She
takes her place among the broken glass and crushed metal, in the iconography of the crash,
alongside James Dean, Jayne Mansfield and Princess Grace"). |
| "Career Move"--the
complete e-text of the short story at the online New York Times Book Review. |
| "Career
Move"--the complete e-text of the short story at the Random House
web site. |
| "High for a Time." Amis
reviews Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full for The Guardian (7
November 1998) |
| Amis on Jorge Luis Borges--from a 14 January 1999
British Library Colloquium on Borges. |
| Amis remembers Iris Murdoch--
transcript
of an interview on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, February 9. |
| "The Shock
of the Nou." Amis reports on Manchester United's European Cup victory. The
Observer, 30 May 1999. |
| "The
world according to Spielberg." From "The Observer
Century in Films," the Guardian & Observer online, 21
November 1982. |
| An excerpt from "Lolita
Reconsidered," originally published in The Atlantic,
September 1992, pp. 109-20. |
| An
excerpt from Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982), in Adobe
Acrobat format (this reproduces the cheesy video game graphics, but
requires Adobe Acrobat to view and read).
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|
"I've
been name dropping, in a way, ever since I first said: 'Dad.'" In
our first extract from his remarkable new autobiography, Martin Amis
reveals the truth about his tender, turbulent relationship with his
father- - and describes his notorious falling-out with Julian Barnes. |
|
"Mum,
do you think I'm her father?--'Definitely.'" In 1974, Martin Amis
had a brief but passionate affair with a married woman. Later he learned
she had had a child and subsequently committed suicide. In the second
exclusive extract from his memoir Experience, he describes how two
decades on he met that child--his daughter--for the first time. |
|
"When
Darkness Met Light." Lucy Partington was 21 when she disappeared.
For two decades, her family desperately hoped she was living elsewhere,
under a new name. Then the world learned that she had been murdered by
Frederick West. In the final exclusive extract from his memoir Experience,
Martin Amis remembers his gentle, artistic cousin; and describes the agony
of failed marriages--his father's and his own.
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