reading Martin Amis again😥 his essays are brilliant too. Found this piece from 2017 with his excellent commentary on Trump & Bannon. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a13052210/donald-trump-pox-americana/
#valemartinamis #martinamis #essays

His work praised and due
Approaching death, an accolade
Honoring a master

#martinamis #knighthood #literarylegend #haiku #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/martin-amis-knighthood-posthumous-king-b2358880.html

Weg van de comfortzone https://deanderekrispeeters.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/weg-van-de-comfortzone/ #Gezondheidenwelzijn #biodiversiteitsramp #klimaatverandering #Nieuwsenpolitiek #Wegvanhetsysteem #energiefacturen #psychohistorici #Klimaatbeleid #BiekePurnelle #HansRombouts #JennyOffill #klimaatramp #democratie #Literatuur #MartinAmis #pauzeknop #klimaat #Boeken #Muziek #Corona

As a #MartinAmis fan, I enjoyed last week's tribute repeat episode of ABC Radio National's #LateNightLive from 2020, with #PhillipAdams in conversation with the recently departed English author about the last book he wrote, Inside Story, on the death of his closest friend, #ChristopherHitchens.

Phillip and Martin also explore other questions on how to live, grieve and die. And my favourite part of their conversation is a philosophical discussion about 36 minutes into the episode, where Phillip admits to Martin that he shares the English poet and author Philip Larkin's fear of "being dead" rather than "dying" itself. That is, "the notion of billions of years of nothingness". To which Martin responds, "Did you mind all those millenia when you were yet to born?"

Please note: Phillip issues a "health warning" that the episode contains some "adult themes" and "if that's not you cup of tea, perhaps switch off". Or, in our case, scroll on.

#writers #books #philosophy #life #death

Link to episode on #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/late-night-live-martin-amis/102356210

70.2023 - #LibroRecomendado: Dinero (1984) - Martin Amis».

Dinero narra en primera persona la historia de John Self, un director de spots publicitarios que marcha a Nueva York para rodar su primera película y uno de los personajes más odiosos de la literatura. Self es un auténtico capullo, pero uno de los más adorables que me he encontrado en la literatura también: un antihéroe ridículo, un hedonista arquetípico que suele estar siempre borracho; un ávido consumidor de pornografía que come demasiado y, sobre todo, gasta demasiado. Aun así, da cierta ternura, tal vez por su simpleza y su ingenuidad. Este libro es una auténtica bomba, por el ritmo trepidante de la narración, por sus juegos de palabras, por sus detalles reveladores, por sus giros inesperados, por su humor despiadado.
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Abrazos desde la Argentina.
#Libros - #MartinAmis - #Literatura - #Lecturas - #Letras - #lectura - #leer - #narrativa - #novela - #dinero - #cultura - #mastolibros #mastodon #bookstodon #fediverso #literaverso #fediverse
IG.: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr4Ygsot9yo/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Weg van de comfortzone https://deanderekrispeeters.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/weg-van-de-comfortzone/ #Gezondheidenwelzijn #biodiversiteitsramp #klimaatverandering #Nieuwsenpolitiek #Wegvanhetsysteem #energiefacturen #psychohistorici #Klimaatbeleid #BiekePurnelle #HansRombouts #JennyOffill #klimaatramp #democratie #Literatuur #MartinAmis #pauzeknop #klimaat #Boeken #Muziek #Corona

#MartinAmis: In ''White Noise'' the famous ''airborne toxic event'' was the result of a military-industrial accident. But it was also DeLillo's metaphor for television -- for the virulent ubiquity of the media spore.

New Yorker: Martin Amis, Remembered by Writers https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/martin-amis-remembered-by-writers #NewYorker #Books/Page-Turner #BritishNovelists #Postscripts #MartinAmis #Authors

#MartinAmis, in bilico fra rottura delle regole e strategie letterarie

#MartinAmis è stato un esempio di quelli che James English ha definito celebrity novelists, autori la cui personalità domina la ricezione della loro opera. In qualche modo, infatti, in
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#MartinAmis, poised between rule-breaking and literary strategies

#MartinAmis was an example of what James English called celebrity novelists, authors whose personality dominates the reception of their work. Somehow, in fact, in
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New Yorker: Losing a Brother in Martin Amis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/losing-a-brother-in-martin-amis #NewYorker #Culture/Postscript #MartinAmis #Obituaries #Literature #Writers

Cannes 2023: Highlights of the first days

https://www.dw.com/en/cannes-2023-highlights-of-the-first-days/a-65677352?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#cannesfilmfestival #cannes #indianajones #film #MartinAmis #MartinScorsese #LeonardoDiCaprio #MichaelDouglas #CatherineDeneuve

#MartinAmis on Tony Blair’s long goodbye.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/02/politicsphilosophyandsociety.amisonblair?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

R.I.P Martin Amis

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-era-defining-british-novelist-dies-aged-73

#MartinAmis #RIP

Farewell Martin Amis

Martin Amis, the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. Never afraid to criticise contemporary society – or defend it from those who would destroy it – he will be greatly missed. #MartinAmis

https://www.openforum.com.au/forums/farewell-martin-amis/

Great #MartinAmis interview.

https://youtube.com/live/bdYQMEt77oo?feature=share

#MartinAmis

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65660768

The death of a writer is generally an occasion for bon mots and well-crafted anecdotes.

Here's a bit from the #NYTimes obituary: https://twitter.com/MatthewJFranck/status/1660232674164842496?cxt=HHwWgIC9wcS0qoouAAAA

Via @yuanyi_z

#MartinAmis

"Amis later decried the “eisteddfod of hostility” that greeted every book after The Information. He was, he complained in the 1990s, “the one you can say anything about”, as critics competed to land the killer blow on his reputation."

Martin Amis, prodigiously gifted novelist acclaimed for capturing the zeitgeist of the 1980s and 1990s, dies at 73 | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/martin-amis-prodigiously-gifted-novelist-acclaimed-for-capturing-the-zeitgeist-of-the-1980s-and-1990s-dies-at-73

RIP, #MartinAmis

#NationalPost #Telegraph

Bloke dies.

#MartinAmis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65660768

#MartinAmis #RIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65660768