My Martin Amis podcast
@mymartinamis.bsky.social
The podcast that invites writers, critics and publicists to tell their story about the life and legacy of the late novelist #MartinAmis. Hosted by @jackaldane.bsky.social
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📣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
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
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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
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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
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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
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
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No slow start to 2026 for @mymartinamis.bsky.social.
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📣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
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
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📣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
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
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
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📣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
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
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🔊 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...
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...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🔊 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...
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...
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...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🔊 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...
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...
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🔊 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!
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!
November 19, 2023 at 9:57 PM
🔊 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!
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!
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Great episode (they’re all great) but also lovely to hear a totally different side/ perspective on Amis. Thanks for all the pods!
September 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Great episode (they’re all great) but also lovely to hear a totally different side/ perspective on Amis. Thanks for all the pods!
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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
See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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
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
See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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
See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE
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"[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...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Ian McEwan at 77: ‘I’d like to be remembered for more than Atonement’
The acclaimed novelist talks about his most disturbing novel yet, crying over his dog — and the last poignant email from his friend Martin Amis
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"[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...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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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.
September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Ian McEwan at 77: ‘I’d like to be remembered for more than Atonement’
The acclaimed novelist talks about his most disturbing novel yet, crying over his dog — and the last poignant email from his friend Martin Amis
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"[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...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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🚨 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
Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live.
Link to full episode in bio
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 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
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
Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live.
Link to full episode in bio
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 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
Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live.
Link to full episode in bio
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Ooh! I worked with them as the admin/publicist/events person for the new Centre for New Writing from 2007 - interesting times!
🚨 NEW EPISODE!
John McAuliffe & Ian McGuire of meet @jackaldane.bsky.social to share memories of #MartinAmis you won’t hear anywhere else.
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Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/64Ui...
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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...
September 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ooh! I worked with them as the admin/publicist/events person for the new Centre for New Writing from 2007 - interesting times!
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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.
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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.
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🚨 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...
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...
September 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🚨 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...
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...
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...
September 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🚨 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...
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...
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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?
August 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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?
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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 👇
Here are the 3 reasons why 👇
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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 👇
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 👇
Here are the 3 reasons why 👇
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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 👇
Here are the 3 reasons why 👇
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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...
My Martin Amis on X: "A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock (@mlocock) 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 👇 https://t.co/600rn7BUbX" / X
A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock (@mlocock) 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 👇 https://t.co/600rn7BUbX
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August 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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...
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👀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.
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.
August 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
👀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.
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.