Interviews
 

 

Selected Interviews With (and by) Martin Amis, listed chronologically:

bullet Ian McEwan and Martin Amis talk about fiction, circa 1985. A streaming video, courtesy of abovestream.com (video from the Roland collection).
bullet Graham Fuller interviews Amis (from Interview magazine, v. 25, no. 5, May 1995).
bullet HotWired interview with Amis, 16 May 1995.
bullet "Amis Bites Back at His Critics." Jerry Carroll interviews Martin Amis for the San Francisco Chronicle (17 May 1995).
bullet "No More Illusions." Martin Amis is Getting Old and Wants to Talk about It. (Interviewed by Alexander Laurence and Kathleen McGee for Alt-X,1995).
bullet Will Self interviews Martin Amis for The Mississippi Review (October, 1995).
bullet "What I Miss is Ringing Kingsley to Check on a Language Point." Valerie Grove interviews Martin Amis for the Times (London), 8 March 1996.
bullet "There is a Kind of Mean-Spiritedness of Which I am the Focus." Jason Cowley interviews Amis for The Times (London), 4 August 1997.
bullet "Success. Money. Happy?" Tim Adams interviews Amis for the Guardian/Observer online (12 October 1997).
bullet Amis interviews Elmore Leonard (January 23, 1998).
bullet Amis interviewed on Fresh Air (January 29, 1998).
bullet "Martin Amis Braves America." Adam Woog interviews Amis for the Seattle Times (January 29, 1998).
bullet Laura Miller interviews Amis (from Salon magazine, February 10 1998. Click here to attempt direct access; if this doesn't work, go to the Salon books page and search for the Amis interview in the archives). For another (joint) Salon interview with Amis about Heavy Water, click here.
bullet "Meeting Martin Amis," by Sheena Kennedy, The Online Reporter, 18 February 1998.
bullet Amis interviewed on Living on Earth  (March 15, 1998).
bullet Andrew Billen interviews Amis for the Evening Standard (30 September 1998).
bullet "Ready, Amis, Fire." A.A. Gill reviews Amis's Interview with Saul Bellow on BBC2's Bookmark for The Times (London), 2 August 1998.
bullet "No Clout In The Home." Monica Drake interviews Martin Amis for "theStranger.com" (17-23 June 1999).
bullet Romona Koval interviews Martin Amis for headspace #9 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), June 1999. 
bullet "The Gender Benders." On Britain's Radio 4 "In Our Times" program 19 January 2000, Melvyn Bragg interviewed Martin Amis and Professor Cora Kaplan about the way men have been portrayed in fiction in the 20th century and how that portrayal has changed as a result of feminism. Lucretia Stewart wrote this 24 January 2000 feature on the subject for the Guardian/Observer online.
bullet "Interviewing Amis." Johann Hari interviews Martin Amis for Varsity! Online (May 2000).
bullet "My Memorable Meeting with Amis." Zoe Williams in The Independent (18 May 2000).
bullet "England is great. But America has real chaos, and that's what writers like." Deborah Orr interviews Amis for The Independent (19 May 2000).
bullet "Questions from the Floor." Q&A following Amis's appearance at the Commonwealth Club of California, where he read from  Experience Amis read during his 13 June 2000 appearance.
bullet "The Importance of Self Worth." Paul Hoggart of the London Times satirizes Amis's appearance on the Melvyn Bragg show (24 June 2000)
bullet "You Scratch My Back." A.A. Gill of the London Times weighs in on the Melvyn Bragg interview of Amis (25 June 2000).
bullet "Time's Arrows." Chris Wright profiles/interviews Amis for The Portland Phoenix (13-20 July 2000).
bullet Tony Jones interviews Amis for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (20 July 2000).
bullet "What an Experience With Martin Amis." Danielle Egan, associate editor of terminalcity.com, conducts a rambling interview with Martin Amis in Vancouver, B.C. (26 July 2000).
bullet "Bestial Turbulence." Mark LePage of the Montreal Gazette interviews Amis during Amis's Canadian Experience tour (23 June 2000).
bullet "The Amis Papers." An interview with Martin Amis in conjunction with the publication of Experience, at the amazon.com.uk web site (2000).
bullet "The Living V-Sign." Lewis Jones interviews Amis for the Telegraph (26 January 2001).
bullet "How is John Self Doing in 2001"? Amis answers questions from his readers via e-mail, and The Independent (independent.co.uk) (25 April 2001) prints the results.
bullet "Amis on Amis" (Electronic Telegraph, 11 December 2001). "Martin Amis, who is giving a Last Word Lecture tomorrow on his father Kingsley, tells Claudia FitzHerbert how he has come to understand why their attitudes to women, politics and writing were so different."
bullet Amis interviewed about Experience by Jon Cook for Pretext 2 (an international literary magazine sponsored by Pen&Ink, a project which began in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia). 
bullet Clive James interviews Martin Amis sometime in 2001-2 (Windows Media Player required).
bullet Celebrity journalism hits bottom (Amis discusses Pilates with a fawning female reporter from the Telegraph--13 June 2002).
bullet "Bringing out the Dread." Anthony Quinn interviews Amis for the Telegraph (filed 31/12/2002).
bullet "Martin Amis: Leader of the Anti-Death League." Boyd Tonkin interviews Amis for the Independent about Koba the Dread ("Martin Amis's blend of polemic and memoir has unleashed a truly Stalinist storm of abuse. Boyd Tonkin meets a writer vilified for daring to link private and public tragedy"). 14 September 2002.
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"Laughter in the Dark." Tishani Doshi interviews Amis about the anniversary of September 11 (from the Hindu Literary Review, 6 October 2002).

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"Even the praise is bad for you." Martin Amis's new novel Yellow Dog is the most eagerly awaited book of the year, dividing the literary world even before its publication. On the eve of its serialisation in the Guardian, the writer tells about his style, his critics and why his daughters are so special" (Guardian, Friday August 29, 2003).

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"Amis Needs a Drink." Kate Muir interviews Amis in the wake of Yellow Dog reviews (13 September 2003).

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Philip Higgs interviews Amis about Yellow Dog for Nerv.com.

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"Cockfights in Fucktown." Christopher Frizzelle interviews Amis for thestranger.com (20-26 November 2003).

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"Martin Amis--the Playboy.comversation [sic]."  Sam Jemielity interviews Amis in the wake of Yellow Dog (undated--late 2003?).

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"It's a mad, mad world that inspires Martin." Gerald Isaaman catches up with Primrose Hill author Martin Amis at the Cheltenham Festival (Camden New Journal, 30 October 2003).

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"Martin Amis, Author of Yellow Dog, talks with Robert Birnbaum" From Identitytheory.com (posted 8 December, 2003).

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"Old Martin Amis is In Your Face Again." Interviewed by Dave Weich, Powells.com (30 November 2004).

 



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