"Reading Money was like hearing The Clash for the first time." Graham Caveney
Journalist and memoirist Graham Caveney speaks to Jack Aldane on this eighth episode of the series about Martin Amis's iconoclastic fifth novel Money: A Suicide Note.He and the host discuss the novel'...
25 Mar 202444min
"Amis is at his best when he leans into his fears." Leo Robson
Leo Robson is a freelance writer whose work has featured in The New Yorker, Harpers and New Statesman, among others.In this episode, he and the series' host and producer Jack Aldane sit down to discus...
26 Feb 202434min
"Reading Martin Amis makes you feel funnier, cleverer, more insightful." Alys Denby
Editor of Cap X Alys Denby 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 Success, published in 1978.Success juxtapo...
8 Jan 202433min
"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott
Columnist, podcast and book reviewer for The London Times James Marriott joins Jack Aldane on Episode 5 to discuss The War Against Cliché , an anthology of Martin Amis's reviews and essays from 1971 t...
24 Nov 202340min
"Not everyone even remotely has Amis's descriptive ability." Zoe Strimpel
Gender scholar, author and columnist Zoe Strimpel tells Jack Aldane about the "sexual sentimental education" she gleaned from Martin Amis’s novels as a young woman battling teenage angst.In particular...
20 Okt 202345min
"You have to get into Amis, and you have to get past Amis." Janan Ganesh
Columnist for The Financial Times Janan Ganesh, speaks to Jack Aldane about the London he grew up in during the early 90s, and which is captured in one of Martin Amis's most celebrated novels, London ...
4 Sep 20231h 2min
"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith
Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith, tells Jack Aldane his story of meeting (and smoking with) Martin Amis, his reflections on Amis's lifelong role as "media whipping b...
31 Jul 202349min
"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, tells the show's host Jack Aldane his story of discovering Martin Amis in the heady 1980s as one of a generatio...
30 Jun 202334min
