Nick Spence · @nickfromupnorth
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Martin Amis: How to write a great sentence - via Chicago Humanities Festival. youtu.be/sxOiWveMJIg

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Charlie Lewis · @charlieclewis
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RIP , the of literature. I studied English at Cambridge, he was only three years my senior, and I've never read one of his novels. That's all about to change. As his friend said, ""He used to say that what he wanted to do was leave be­hind a shelf of books - to be able to say: 'From here to here, it's me.'" I can look for­ward to the shelf. Read more here: 👉 climateblog.uk/index.html#Disc

#MartinAmis #mickjagger #salmanrushdie

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Negative12DollarBill · @negative12dollarbill
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Not to speak ill of the dead, but Martin Amis once wrote this about the terrorist attacks on the WTC on September 11th and, well … it's nonsense.

I mean really, clearly, obviously impossible, absolutely not possible if you think about the events of that day, or the sizes of the objects described, for even ten seconds.

I'm not trying to speak ill of the dead but it has always puzzled me that he could write something so ridiculous and not get called on it.

#911 @bookstodon

#MartinAmis #books #writing #bookstodon #wtc

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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“Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.”

#MartinAmis #silentsunday #quotes #culture #sunday

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Nick Spence · @nickfromupnorth
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Martin Amis. The Information (1995)

'Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them.

Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?"'

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yulqen · @haircode
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RIP . One of the greats and a massive influence on me over the years.

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Lesering.de · @lesering
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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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don't drive. Never trust a at the wheel.

If a poet can drive, distrust the ...’

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n0body · @n0body
114 followers · 797 posts · Server hachyderm.io

@npr_bot The Zone of Interest - an exploration of the ordinary human capacity for evil - premiered at the Cannes film festival last night, based on the story by , coincidentally on the night of his death.

theguardian.com/film/2023/may/

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Paula Whyman · @paulawhyman
267 followers · 579 posts · Server writing.exchange

Favorite Martin Amis book?
I'm partial to THE INFORMATION, LONDON FIELDS, and MONEY, in that order.

@bookstodon

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Mark Wallace · @markwallace
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Finding people to follow on here by searching the tag. (There ought to be some kind of word for that.)

#MartinAmis

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Mark Wallace · @markwallace
113 followers · 371 posts · Server zirk.us

Finding people to follow on here by searching the tag. (There ought to be some kind of word for that.)

#MartinAmis

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Simon · @SimonBralee
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Remember when I was reading Money (which I loved), I bumped into Martin Amis in the street and he scowled at me. Made my day. Very sad to hear the news. My thoughts are with his family.

#Books #bookstodon #MartinAmis

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Keith · @keefeglise
257 followers · 261 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

It's sad of course. But set the cause back decades with his lazy stereotypes.

#MartinAmis #Keith

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Roger Gathmann · @rogergathmann
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Few novelists have a great gift for the essay. Usually the essays of the professional novelist, the type, have a between-work air. Among the Brits, the great essayist-novelists are , and . I have been in love with Jimmy Joyce since highschool, and consider Ulysses the summit of art – but he was no essayist. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2022/1

#MartinAmis #lawrence #Woolf #pritchett

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Nik Stanbridge · @nikstanbridge
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If I was going to read a Julian Barnes novel tomorrow, which one would it be? As supporting info, I’m a big reader of contemporary fiction but just haven’t yet got around to Barnes. I didn’t enjoy The Sense of an Ending or The Noise of Time btw. Should I stick to Martin Amis?

#JulianBarnes #MartinAmis #bookrecommendation

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Benjamin Donguk Lukoff · @lukobe
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helices · @helices
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Sometimes you get stuck & it's something you've already done that isn't right. You have to go back & fix that

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