Martin Amis
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But I quite understand and forgive those poor young whippersnappers who did – and really don't blame them, especially if they were only doing it as a cynical bid to get into the knickers of hot hippie chicks. So three cheers for another trot – George... Full Article at The Telegraph
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I had to wait some half-dozen years before I ventured into Martin Amis’ memoir, before I could really be drawn in by it. Which is to say I had needed some six, maybe seven years before I had become the kind of person drawn in by the reconstruction of... Full Article at PopMatters
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He would say it while he, I and others settled down for 16 or 17 hours for food, drink, tobacco, conversation
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Participants include the novelist Olga Slavnikova, the poet Polina Barskova, the writer Martin Amis, and the radio host Leonard Lopate, as well as winners of the most recent Debut Prizes, a series of independent literary awards given to Russian writers... Full Article at The New Yorker
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Martin Amis’s 1997 philosophical “whydunit” murder mystery, Night Train , belongs somewhere nearby. But I am now guilty of some semi-intentional blurring. I am categorizing kinds of appeal, while others would divide the genre by type: locked room,... Full Article at Globe and Mail
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WSJ Staff Everett Collection What will you be reading this summer? Some of us catch up on our Cosmo in the summer, others are determined to plow through Proust. Here at the WSJ, we’re scanning the shelves for the best books to add to your reading list... Full Article at Wall Street Journal Blogs
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I got the idea from Martin Amis’s collected essays in which he did the same thing – and clearly I’ve had a long-term obsession in trying to make sense of going from one activity to another and how they join up.
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Not much of a football star, obviously. A lot of people, not least several managers, the pundits on Match Of The Day and the Football Association, appear to have rumbled Barton’s professional worth by now. To media types, whose knowledge of the working... Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Yet by far his most interesting criticism came when a little sharpness and attack escaped him, as when considering the life of John Cheever, a partly wasted but obviously greater talent; or when reviewing British writers unsuccessfully trying to be... Full Article at This Is London
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“Oh my God, my [bleeping] boyfriend just did this movie.” “The French, they’re up in arms that he did it.” Robert Pattinson is starring in the upcoming film version of “Bel Ami,” which will arrive in theaters on June 8. He co-stars with Uma Thurman,... Full Article at Gossiboo Crew
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Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is an English novelist, essayist and short story writer, the son of writer Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as London Fields (1989) and The Information (1995). Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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