From: stephenjones
Category: Amis
Date: 7/15/99
Time: 7:57:30 AM
Remote Name: 130.159.248.35
Here's links to the South African newspapers "The Independant" and "The Daily Mail and Guardian" but first some more nonsense from Ms. Burchill (in the Mail and Guardian).
Julie Burchill
For me there was only one book this year [1997] and that was Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words. The transcripts of the tapes she made are heart-breaking; hearty Sloane cliches interspersed with cries of agony like something out of Samuel Beckett. The first paragraph of the first tape -- "My first memory is really the smell of the inside of my pram. It was plastic and the smell of the hood. Vivid memory. I was born at home not in hospital. The biggest disruption was when Mummy decided to let it" -- is like something from JD Salinger, and other parts make you think of Kafka and even Nabokov. The whole thing is done so brilliantly that it really made me despair of the fiction I read this year. I think Andrew Morton will go down in history as a far more important writer than Martin Amis. I don't understand what has happened to English novels: a few years ago you had all these brilliant books like The Remains of the Day and Ambition, and now everyone really seems to be performing way below par. Though I know for a fact that both my ex-husbands are writing novels, so I'll probably be in them, which should liven things up a bit.
BONKERS!
Amis and America: http://www2.inc.co.za/Archives/1997/9710/25/amis1810.html
Amis and Leornard: http://www2.inc.co.za/Archives/1998/9804/2/SunInd0803bks02.html The Dickens of Detroit and the New Nabokov? Please!
Mars-Jones reviews HW: http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/990108/NEWS35.html
Review of NT: http://www2.inc.co.za/Archives/1998/9802/23/book3.hd.html
Okay I'm bored with links now any body want to talk about "Money"?