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Personal stories from writers, critics and publicists about the life and legacy of late English novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023).
Host and producer: Jack Aldane
Music: 'June' by Nigel Martin
Twitter: @mymartinamis
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What of Martin Amis’s legacy will survive the 21st Century?
This summer, on what would have been Martin Amis’s 77th birthday (25 August 2026), My Martin Amis took to the stage at 21 Soho in Central London for its second annual live show. Joining Jack Aldane for the evening was Kevin Power (novelist,
"Are there any ugly women that Amis affords full humanity? I'm not convinced." Leon Craig
Leon Craig's debut novel The Decadence was published in September of 2025, with the paperback due to be published in August 2026. She speaks to Jack Aldane about Amis's 2010 novel The Pregnant Widow, a complex synthesis of comedy of manners
"When you don't win The Booker, you know it's alright, because Amis didn't either." Kevin Power
Many a male Amis reader owes his smoking habit to the author. The novelist Kevin Power is one who thought he'd quit for good, until he spotted Amis and Isabel Fonseca walking on the grounds of Ireland's prestigious Borris House Festival of
"I wish Amis's Substack was landing in my inbox today." George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris
For this episode of My Martin Amis, we're plugging into the London recording studio of the New Statesman magazine. From the intro: "Founded by economists and social reformers Sidney and Beatrice Webb and the Irish playwright George Bernard
"Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay
David Szalay won the Booker Prize for his sixth novel Flesh in 2025. In this tense, spare, frictionless work of fiction, he drip feeds us the story of the laconic male protagonist Istvan, who spends his youth in a juvenile facility in Hunga
"Every page of London Fields has a sense of an author in absolute command." Rob Doyle
In the basement room of an East London flat one rainy January morning, Jack sat down with the Irish writer Rob Doyle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Doyle_(writer)) to discuss the publication of his third novel, Cameo (https://amzn.to/4s
"I went to pick him up at Manchester Piccadilly Station and...he was doing Pilates." John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire
This episode takes Jack Aldane to Manchester, where he meets two men who knew Martin Amis in a rather unique setting. Ian McGuire and John McAuliffe, both esteemed authors, are the co-founders of The Centre for New Writing (https://www.alc.
"Amis wrote with precision of judgement, of observation, and with great linguistic ingenuity." Geoff Dyer
In this episode, Jack sits down with the award-winning author and novelist Geoff Dyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Dyer) at his home to discuss the Good Book of Mart (as distinct from the Big Book of Mart (https://en.wikipedia.org/w
"I hope writers today can rediscover the verve and energy of Martin Amis." Ross Barkan
Ross Barkan is a 35 year-old American journalist and novelist from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His third novel, Glass Century, was published on 6 May 2025. On a semi-vacation to London this summer, Ross and Jack met to speak about Ross's favourite
"The Zone of Interest records the greatest phraselet in the English language." Vincenzo Barney
Vincenzo Barney travelled all the way from Massachusetts to join a panel of eight speakers at the My Martin Amis LIVE show in March this year. If you haven't listened to it already, do go back and hit play. Since then, Vincenzo has had busi
My Martin Amis LIVE - Sunday 23 March, 2025
On Sunday 23 March 2025, listeners of the podcast gathered in Central London to watch a live Amisathon, featuring 8 panellists and the show's host. The panel included former guests as well as a couple of new faces: Leo Robson (https://x.com
"I should've gone to lunch with Martin Amis, because by that point I loved him." Carol Morley
Martin Amis's 1997 novel Night Train followed a trifecta of bestsellers: Money, London Fields and The Information. Written as a dark parody of the noir genre, Night Train follows female detective Mike Hoolihan on an investigation into the s
"He opened the door, holding three darts. Amis was quite mischievous." Anthony Quinn
English novelist Anthony Quinn has met and interviewed Martin Amis on several occasions. Their first encounter followed the publication of London Fields in 1989, the second during the publicity storm that came with Amis's 1995 novel The Inf
"Martin Amis makes you alive to the possibilities of prose." David Patrikarakos
British author, journalist and war correspondent David Patrikarakos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patrikarakos) was due to leave the UK for Athens in the summer of 2024. Before he left, he discovered My Martin Amis, and quickly got i
"Amis's prose is sparkling, relatable, aspirational, and authentic." Simon Parkin
On this episode, British journalist, author and video game critic for The Observer Simon Parkin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Parkin) reaches into the more obscure corners of Amis's bibliography to dissect a dazzling collection of ar
"Amis is one of the best writers of dialogue." John Niven
John Niven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Niven) is a Scottish author and screenwriter whose books include Kill Your Friends (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Your_Friends), The Amateurs (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/396913/the-am
"When he died, I was distraught. Only Amis could have that effect on me." Will Lloyd
Reporter for The Sunday Times Will Lloyd (https://twitter.com/Will___lloyd) sits down with Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jackaldane) on this ninth episode to discuss The Second Plane, a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two s
"Reading Money was like hearing The Clash for the first time." Graham Caveney
Journalist and memoirist Graham Caveney (https://www.grahamcaveney.com/) speaks to Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jackaldane) on this eighth episode of the series about Martin Amis's iconoclastic fifth novel Money: A Suicide Note (https:/
"Amis is at his best when he leans into his fears." Leo Robson
Leo Robson (https://twitter.com/leorobsonwriter) is a freelance writer whose work has featured in The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/leo-robson), Harpers (https://harpers.org/archive/2020/11/a-swing-and-amis-inside-story
"Reading Martin Amis makes you feel funnier, cleverer, more insightful." Alys Denby
Editor of Cap X Alys Denby (https://twitter.com/alysdenby) discovered Martin Amis through a boy at university would she would later go on to marry. The first book of Amis's he leant her was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_(novel), pub
"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott
Columnist, podcast and book reviewer for The London Times James Marriott (https://twitter.com/j_amesmarriott?lang=en) joins Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jackaldane) on Episode 5 to discuss The War Against Cliché (https://en.wikipedia.or
"Not everyone even remotely has Amis's descriptive ability." Zoe Strimpel
Gender scholar, author and columnist Zoe Strimpel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Strimpel) tells Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jackaldane) about the "sexual sentimental education" she gleaned from Martin Amis’s novels as a young woma
"You have to get into Amis, and you have to get past Amis." Janan Ganesh
Columnist for The Financial Times Janan Ganesh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janan_Ganesh), speaks to Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jackaldane) about the London he grew up in during the early 90s, and which is captured in one of Martin
"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith
Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Leith), tells Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jackaldane) his story of meeting (and smoking with) Martin Amis, his reflections on Amis's
"For my generation, he filled the skyline." Matt d'Ancona
Author, award-winning columnist and Editor at Large for The New European, Matt d'Ancona (https://twitter.com/MatthewdAncona?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor), tells the show's host Jack Aldane (https://twitter.com/jack
Welcome to My Martin Amis with Jack Aldane
In My Martin Amis, British journalist and host of The Booking Club podcast (https://play.acast.com/s/thecornertable) Jack Aldane talks to writers, critics and publicists who have something personal to say about the life and legacy of the la
