A message here from Rob Doyle, the Irish writer who’ll soon be ringing in the new year with a new novel, and a chat with @jackaldane.bsky.social media

A message here from Rob Doyle, the Irish writer who’ll soon be ringing in the new year with a new novel, and a chat with @jackaldane.bsky.social media

No slow start to 2026 for @mymartinamis.bsky.social.

📣IN THE NEW YEAR… David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social

📣IN THE NEW YEAR… David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel 🏆📚Flesh📚🏆, tells @jackaldane.bsky.social how #MartinAmis spurred him to deal with sordidness, how it made him a better writer, and the story behind his favourite Amis work. @thebookerprizes.com @thetls.bsky.social

🔊 In 2026... Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer. Do. Not. Miss. ALL EPISODES 2023-2025: www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

🔊 In 2026... Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer. Do. Not. Miss. ALL EPISODES 2023-2025: www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

🔊 Yesterday we wrapped Ep.5 of My Martin Amis Podcast with James Marriott and I discussing 📚The War Against Cliché📚 Don’t miss James’s brilliant retelling of how he discovered Amis’s collection of essays and reviews, and why its fire still illuminates today. OUT SOON!

Great episode (they’re all great) but also lovely to hear a totally different side/ perspective on Amis. Thanks for all the pods!

Ian McGuire, author of the 2016 novel The North Water, reads from #MartinAmis's The Rub of Time, in which an essay appears on the toll age can take on the writer's 'inner ear', and what Amis belives this meant for John Updike. See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE

Ian McGuire, author of the 2016 novel The North Water, reads from #MartinAmis's The Rub of Time, in which an essay appears on the toll age can take on the writer's 'inner ear', and what Amis belives this meant for John Updike. See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE

"[Martin Amis] said: I'm no longer reading with a pencil in my hand, and I knew that that was probably the closest he'd come to complaining to me about his state of health. I think the pencil represents an idea of the future. About a week later he was dead."’ www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Such a wonderful episode with John and Ian BTW, I finished listening this morning and immediately had to contact them. Your questions were so good.

"[Martin Amis] said: I'm no longer reading with a pencil in my hand, and I knew that that was probably the closest he'd come to complaining to me about his state of health. I think the pencil represents an idea of the future. About a week later he was dead."’ www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

🚨 Listen to the latest episode with writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire of The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live. Link to full episode in bio

🚨 Listen to the latest episode with writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire of The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live. Link to full episode in bio

Ooh! I worked with them as the admin/publicist/events person for the new Centre for New Writing from 2007 - interesting times!

There have been some excellent episodes of the podcast, particularly this summer, but this one is the best. A nuanced discussion that brings many of Amis's complexities and contradictions to the fore. Love the episodes that feature people who knew him personally.

🚨 NEW EPISODE! John McAuliffe & Ian McGuire of meet @jackaldane.bsky.social to share memories of #MartinAmis you won’t hear anywhere else. 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/64Ui... Acast shows.acast.com/6480a754d9a8...

🚨 NEW EPISODE! John McAuliffe & Ian McGuire of meet @jackaldane.bsky.social to share memories of #MartinAmis you won’t hear anywhere else. 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/64Ui... Acast shows.acast.com/6480a754d9a8...

Hi Martin, glad to be introduced by Jack here. I was also on the never-populous-but-always-dwindling J Diedrick ‘Martin Amis Page’ all those years ago, as was of course Geoff Norcott, now famous. Who were you? What memories do you have of it? Jules Clinch? Bill Jarma?

A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock @mlocock.bsky.social, Amis fan and fellow podcast creator, offers his two cents on Yellow Dog, an underdog novel in the Amis corpus that he argues brings more pleasure than its critics would have you believe. Here are the 3 reasons why 👇

A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock @mlocock.bsky.social, Amis fan and fellow podcast creator, offers his two cents on Yellow Dog, an underdog novel in the Amis corpus that he argues brings more pleasure than its critics would have you believe. Here are the 3 reasons why 👇

After a discussion with @mymartinamis.bsky.social @jackaldane.bsky.social I have put together a partial defence of Amis's Yellow Dog. It's not as bad as you thought, honest! x.com/i/status/195...

👀COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER... Friends and former colleagues of #MartinAmis, the writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire, talk to @jackaldane.bsky.social next about founding the University of Manchester's @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social, and the indispensable role Amis played in bringing it to life.

Looking forward to this. 👏

And! Blimey, this will be a trip down memory lane for me...

👀COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER... Friends and former colleagues of #MartinAmis, the writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire, talk to @jackaldane.bsky.social next about founding the University of Manchester's @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social, and the indispensable role Amis played in bringing it to life.

Really enjoyed this episode, which is unsparing with Amis's failings while extolling his virtues to the stars.

Next episode is taking @jackaldane.bsky.social to Manchester… 🤔

Next episode is taking @jackaldane.bsky.social to Manchester… 🤔

I think this might be the best episode yet of the podcast. Some excellent questions and an enlightening "take" from Geoff on Amis that brought together some of the ideas discussed in previous episodes. Much to think about, as always.

Two of my favourite writers! Geoff Dyer on Martin Amis on @mymartinamis.bsky.social

LISTEN NOW to Geoff Dyer on Ep#18 of the series, where he and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the lasting power of The War Against Cliché to inspire writers everywhere.

This is a great episode, thank you. Very glad that you are keeping going - plenty more books to cover, as you mention. The chat about, and quotes from, the Don Quixote review had me weeping with laughter on the train. Many thanks.

Never thought I'd finish listening to a Martin Amis podcast and end up thinking I need to read "Lonesome Dove"...!

🔊NEW EPISODE! Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the auspicious power of The War Against Cliché, how Geoff would have fared against #MartinAmis on the 🎾 court, and more! Spotify🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/4qvg... Apple 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

🔊NEW EPISODE! Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the auspicious power of The War Against Cliché, how Geoff would have fared against #MartinAmis on the 🎾 court, and more! Spotify🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/4qvg... Apple 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social wrap another terrific episode, surrounded by the rich archives of Geoff’s study.

Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social wrap another terrific episode, surrounded by the rich archives of Geoff’s study.

Inspired by the excellent @mymartinamis.bsky.social podcast, I'm going to read or reread* (almost) every book by Martin Amis in order of publication. I'm ambivalent about Amis but have been rethinking him recently. I'll post my thoughts about each book here. (1/30) #Booksky #Amis 📸© Angela Gorgas

COMING UP THIS MONTH... Award-winning author Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social reenter Martin Amis's 'The War Against Cliché'. STAY TUNED FOR MORE.

COMING UP THIS MONTH... Award-winning author Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social reenter Martin Amis's 'The War Against Cliché'. STAY TUNED FOR MORE.

⏰ NEW EPISODE of the My Martin Amis #podcast! Listen to Ross Barkan and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss Amis's last novel Inside Story, #Trump and the Amisian spirit of fearlessness that Ross hopes modern writers can reclaim for the 21st C. 🔗 t.co/aA4XgEE9bV 🔗 t.co/kBmqh3bhl7 🔗 t.co/JEpj7gwWqR

ICYMI, listen now to Ross Barkan discussing Inside Story with @jackaldane.bsky.social on the latest episode of My #MartinAmis.

Had a similar reaction re-reading "Inside Story" earlier this year and coming to the passage where Amis imagined himself being here in January 2025 to see the end of a double term Trump presidency...

⏰ NEW EPISODE of the My Martin Amis #podcast! Listen to Ross Barkan and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss Amis's last novel Inside Story, #Trump and the Amisian spirit of fearlessness that Ross hopes modern writers can reclaim for the 21st C. 🔗 t.co/aA4XgEE9bV 🔗 t.co/kBmqh3bhl7 🔗 t.co/JEpj7gwWqR

A message from the English author Geoff Dyer… Don’t miss this in August 🌞

A message from the English author Geoff Dyer… Don’t miss this in August 🌞