"Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay

"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 Hungary before eventually finding his way into a fractured family situated among the upper echelons of London's wealthiest elites, where his fortunes soon unravel.


Flesh was celebrated as a return of the male gaze to modern literature, and to masculinity as a subject worthy of more sympathetic and complex consideration than the last decade arguably would suggest.


For this episode, David chose to speak to Jack about The Information, a titanic Amis work in which a literary rivalry between the main characters Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry ripples out to the peripheries of middle class London life and conscripts the city's criminal fringes to help settle the score.


David tells Jack why, especially after winning the Booker, he considers The Information literature's greatest tonic for writerly vanity. He recounts his discovery of Amis's work as a young man, and explains why Tull and Barry, though both excruciating to witness in their insecurities for the reader, are nevertheless relatable to writers who know the misery that ultimately binds them together.


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"When you don't win The Booker, you know it's alright, because Amis didn't either." Kevin Power

"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'...

6 Touko 55min

"I wish Amis's Substack was landing in my inbox today." George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris

"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 a...

14 Maalis 36min

"Every page of London Fields has a sense of an author in absolute command." Rob Doyle

"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 to discuss the publication of his third novel, Cameo, and delve into his long and c...

23 Tammi 51min

"I went to pick him up at Manchester Piccadilly Station and...he was doing Pilates." John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire

"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 ...

3 Syys 202550min

"Amis wrote with precision of judgement, of observation, and with great linguistic ingenuity." Geoff Dyer

"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 at his home to discuss the Good Book of Mart (as distinct from the Big Book of Mart), AKA The War Against Cliché.G...

5 Elo 202545min

"I hope writers today can rediscover the verve and energy of Martin Amis." Ross Barkan

"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 J...

18 Heinä 202547min

"The Zone of Interest records the greatest phraselet in the English language." Vincenzo Barney

"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...

6 Touko 202539min

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