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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? · 58 minThis 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…
- "Are there any ugly women that Amis affords full humanity? I'm not convinced." Leon Craig · 52 minLeon 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…
- "When you don't win The Booker, you know it's alright, because Amis didn't either." Kevin Power · 55 minMany 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…
- "I wish Amis's Substack was landing in my inbox today." George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris · 37 minFor 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…
- "Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay · 44 minDavid 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…
- "Every page of London Fields has a sense of an author in absolute command." Rob Doyle · 51 minIn 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…
- "I went to pick him up at Manchester Piccadilly Station and...he was doing Pilates." John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire · 51 minThis 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…
- "Amis wrote with precision of judgement, of observation, and with great linguistic ingenuity." Geoff Dyer · 45 minIn 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…
- "I hope writers today can rediscover the verve and energy of Martin Amis." Ross Barkan · 48 minRoss 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…
- "The Zone of Interest records the greatest phraselet in the English language." Vincenzo Barney · 39 minVincenzo 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…
- My Martin Amis LIVE - Sunday 23 March, 2025 · 1 h 41 minOn 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…
- "I should've gone to lunch with Martin Amis, because by that point I loved him." Carol Morley · 1 h 4 minMartin 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…
- "He opened the door, holding three darts. Amis was quite mischievous." Anthony Quinn · 52 minEnglish 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…
- "Martin Amis makes you alive to the possibilities of prose." David Patrikarakos · 44 minBritish author, journalist and war correspondent David Patrikarakos was due to leave the UK for Athens in the summer of 2024. Before he left, he discovered My Martin Amis, and…
- "Amis's prose is sparkling, relatable, aspirational, and authentic." Simon Parkin · 44 minOn this episode, British journalist, author and video game critic for The Observer Simon Parkin reaches into the more obscure corners of Amis's bibliography to dissect a dazzling…
- "Amis is one of the best writers of dialogue." John Niven · 45 minJohn Niven is a Scottish author and screenwriter whose books include Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs, The Second Coming. The F*ck-it List, and O Brother. John discusses his…
- "When he died, I was distraught. Only Amis could have that effect on me." Will Lloyd · 49 minReporter for The Sunday Times Will Lloyd sits down with Jack Aldane on this ninth episode to discuss The Second Plane, a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two short…
- "Reading Money was like hearing The Clash for the first time." Graham Caveney · 45 minJournalist 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…
- "Amis is at his best when he leans into his fears." Leo Robson · 34 minLeo 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…
- "Reading Martin Amis makes you feel funnier, cleverer, more insightful." Alys Denby · 34 minEditor 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…
