"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 Maj 55min
"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 Mars 36min
"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 h...
12 Feb 44min
"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 Jan 51min
"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 Sep 202550min
"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 Aug 202545min
"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 Juli 202547min
"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 Maj 202539min
