🚨UP NOW! On 23rd April last month, Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records before a packed venue to discuss📚The Quantity Theory of Morality📚 Nothing was held back, and now, it's all there to listen to, relive and download.

Kathleen Stock has been discussing friction-maxxing on Times Radio this morning, and the subject finds its way into the next episode of The Booking Club, when she and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet for dinner to discuss 📚Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death📚 More soon!

A mere morsel next to what was served up live in April when the author of 📚 The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records. Listen to the full version from tomorrow morning.

🔊UP NEXT this summer ☀️ Novelist Leon Craig starts a long-awaited conversation about #MartinAmis's 2010 novel 📚The Pregnant Widow📚. She and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the story's anxieties around the fallout of the sexual revolution, the Cold War, male insecurities around height, and more.

More reasons, with Emmanuel Macron 👇

More reasons, with Paul McCartney 👇 @jackaldane.bsky.social

More reasons this week with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. @jackaldane.bsky.social Subscribe to our SUBSTACK: thelitpath.substack.com

Ahead of the first episode of the series, @jackaldane.bsky.social remembers a friend he lost to suicide 10 years ago today. open.substack.com/pub/thelitpa...

🚨 LISTEN NOW to the novelist Megan Nolan discussing her work as a writer and reader in the age of splintered attention with @jackaldane.bsky.social at her favourite restaurant Le Paddock in Brooklyn, New York. 🔗 youtu.be/-GfHqkTWmS8?...

In a reversal of time's arrow, the next episode is available to listen to ahead of schedule! @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Irish novelist Kevin Power discuss Amis's 1991 Booker-shortlisted novel, and how meeting Amis made him take up smoking again. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFp...

OUT ON FRIDAY 8 MAY! Irish novelist Kevin Power and @jackaldane.bsky.social sit down to talk about Amis's 1991 novel 📚Time's Arrow📚 NOT LONG NOW... 🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

🎧 LISTEN NOW to a brand new episode with Ross Barkan speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at Edward’s in downtown Manhattan about his new novel, 📚 COLOSSUS 📚 Discover how the art of self-reinvention has made and unmade America over a century. 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

LISTEN SOON to a sparkling new episode lifted from our live podcast at Special Rider in Shepherd’s Bush, in which Will Self took the stage with @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss 📚 The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚. We were packed to the rafters, thanks to our collaborator and attendees.

If you didn’t make it to Special Rider last night to hear Will Self and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss The Quantity Theory of Morality, you’ll soon be able to listen to it, in full, in May! Thank you to all, including our delightful sell-out crowd, who showed up in spite of the Tube Strike!

⏳It's almost time... A new episode in which @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the Irish writer Kevin Power will be dropping very, very soon. Together, they dive into TIME'S ARROW (1991).

“When I showed my agent a first draft, she said: ‘Jay, you’re going to get a lot of shit for some of this stuff.” Jay McInerney talks about bringing The Calloway Chronicles to a close with @jackaldane.bsky.social at Parcelle in New York. 🔗 youtu.be/trfh-z7ge7A?...

🚨 NEW EPISODE ‼️ On the publication day of Jay McInerney’s 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚, the last of four novels that completes The Calloway Chronicles, we invite you to dinner at Parcelle in New York where @jackaldane.bsky.social and Jay discuss. 🔗 youtu.be/trfh-z7ge7A?...

🎟️SOLD OUT!🎟️ Today, we and Special Rider officially sold the last seat for our upcoming live podcast in Shepherd’s Bush Market, where on 23rd April, novelist Will Self and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss: 📚The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚 From today’s BBC Radio London with Robert Elms

💙📚 Recently finished #SpringNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Now what we don't want is Facts." In progress: #TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood #CharlesDickens

🔊 OUT ON 14 APRIL! King of Literary NYC Jay McInerney meets @jackaldane.bsky.social in Manhattan to discuss the final instalment of his tetralogy of novels: 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚 Includes👇 📚 Nights out with Tom Cruise 📚 Choosing 🍷 over cocaine 📚 Knowing Norman Mailer

Downtown Manhattan with Ross Barkan, author of a new novel 📚Colossus📚, due out in April. Thank you to Edward's, Ross's workaday lunch spot from his days as a City Hall reporter, in New York for having us. @jackaldane.bsky.social

🔊 COMING UP in April next month… Dr Kathleen Stock discusses a life and death matter with @jackaldane.bsky.social 📚 Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death 📚 , is out now.

New York stalwart writer Jay McInerney and @jackaldane.bsky.social wrap another fabulous episode of The Booking Club, discussing the novel that closes out Jay’s tetralogy known as The Calloway Chronicles: 📚 See You on the Other Side 📚. 🎧 New episode coming soon!

The Booking Club has teamed up with Special Rider to bring you a spectacular event with the writer Will Self, in which Will and @jackaldane.bsky.social will discuss: 📚THE QUANTITY THEORY OF MORALITY📚 All that's left now is for you to book your tickets.

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It’s a sort of minor tragedy that generally intelligent and well educated people don’t read any philosophy at all. — Bryan Magee

🏹TIME'S ARROW INCOMING! In April, the Irish writer and critic Kevin Power meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss Amis's 1991 novel, Time's Arrow. Catch up on all episodes, including the latest with @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social 👇 🔗 www.youtube.com/shorts/2UPKK...

@jackaldane.bsky.social and guests are preparing to delve into the novel that have altered their perspectives for good. Here's a taste of what's to come on The Lit Path, and why it matters that men read more fiction. 🔗 thelitpath.substack.com

🔊 LISTEN & WATCH NOW! @jackaldane.bsky.social sits down with @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social to discuss what Amis’s 📚 Experience 📚 taught them about love and what to make of one of (very few) of Amis’s poems. youtu.be/AAkjARBfhsE?...

👀On 23 APRIL @jackaldane.bsky.social joins Will Self in conversation for The Booking Club LIVE in collab with Special Rider Books & Records 🎉 They discuss Self’s new novel 📚The Quantity Theory of Morality📚and ask: How Good Are You, Exactly? GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

ALL 👀 ON THIS Hosted by @jackaldane.bsky.social, The Lit Path is gearing up to uncover the unrecognised power of novels to positively influence the modern male psyche. Follow us on all socials & subscribe to our Substack page for updates. WATCH THE TRAILER🔗 thelitpath.substack.com/p/this-is-th...

The next episode invites @georgemonaghan.bsky.social and @nickpaulharris.bsky.social to discuss 📚Experience📚 with @jackaldane.bsky.social, under the studio lights at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. Don't miss it!

Novelist Jay McInerney here with a message about his brand new novel 📚See You on the Other Side 📚, and where @jackaldane.bsky.social and he will be meeting this spring 🌸🗽

🎧 NEXT MONTH... @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 for an evening with The Battle Book Club. 15TH APRIL, 7PM UK TIME Book Yourself A Place in the Conversation📝 🔗 t.co/Tzvz3Q0cMe

🎧 LISTEN UP! @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 in a co-hosted Battle Book Club livestream on 15th April, 7pm UK Time Come take part! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-boo...

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social has a top-notch book rec, and literary dream date to share with you all...

Well, look what just arrived.

☀️THIS SPRING, @jackaldane.bsky.social launches The Lit Path, a podcast about novels that have changed men's lives. Because: 📚Boys & men need better stories 📚Women read far more fiction than men 📚Life is about more than atomic habits We ask: What happens when men take novels seriously?

With statesmanlike calm, @georgemonaghan.bsky.social delivers a message of reassurance to listeners, alongside his colleague @nickpaulharris.bsky.social, about an ep that will see @jackaldane.bsky.social and the duo discuss 📚Experience📚, The Amis Papers at the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, & more.

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about the drift away from weighty political speech in favour of short-form soundbites within the UK House of Commons, and why we desperately need a reversal of the trend. FULL EPISODE: t.co/turNhhiV83

This is Fig & Walnut in Bloomsbury, where @jackaldane.bsky.social met @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss Trip to the Moon 🌑

A perfect match of guest and subject... Every time this podcast returns to a novel it has already covered, it makes me want to re-read it yet again! (The scene with Richard and his son is one of the many Amis that sentences/phrases that has stayed with me.)

🔊 OUT NOW! "Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss: ✒️The first Amis novel David ever read ✒️The lessons for all writers in The Information ✒️Why Amis was right about style 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTrz...

🚨 OUT TOMORROW! David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about Martin Amis’s 🎾📚The Information📚🎾 ⏰SET YOUR ALARMS! #martinamis

🚨 OUT THIS WEEK! On Thurs 12 Feb, Booker Prize winning novelist David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about why Martin Amis’s 📚 The Information 📚 is the bittersweet medicine every writer should take, whether they are fighting their way up, or draped in the afterglow of a literary triumph.

Thank you to @johnyorkestory.bsky.social for a great recording this week at The Fig and Walnut in Bloomsbury. 📚Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power of Storytelling📚 is OUT NOW.

Next up, @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the script wizard @johnyorkestory.bsky.social

This is Zeret Kitchen, the Ethiopian based in Camberwell where @lucasoakeley.bsky.social met @jackaldane.bsky.social to kick the year off. Don't sleep on it. FULL EPISODE🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...

I can’t wait for you all to enjoy this one @mymartinamis.bsky.social

🚨COMING SOON in FEB... @jackaldane.bsky.social speaks to the 2025 Booker Prize winner David Szalay, about Amis's 1995 novel 📚The Information📚, how it helped sober him after the heady triumph of Flesh, why men treat tennis as a modern duel of honour 🎾, + more! 🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...