Face to Face: Martin Amis (Part One)

In this intimate interview, Martin Amis talks to Jeremy Isaacs about his writing and the experiences that have helped to develop his literary style. The wide-ranging conversation covers the novelist's childhood and his relationship with his father, author Kingsley Amis, his attitude to his characters, the depiction of the grotesque in his books and his belief in the important role that US writers will play in the future of the novel.

[@SamuelDaram]

Thank you so much for uploading this Martin Amis interview. He is always worth listening.

[@heliopolis]

“If I dropped dead…” Gone too soon. RIP one of the all time great writers of prose.

[@benhughes163]

you mean you made your excuses and left?
no I made my apologies and stayed.

[@wystanisles4094]

Ben Hughes I was left astounded by the sheer celerity with which he pulled that one out of the bag.

[@JohnPaul-le4pf]

"The Wound and the Bow," Edmund Wilson.

[@scottvska]

Year?

[@freakyfadge]

4:03 based manlet 😎

[@ArthurSalt]

Pull!!!!!

[@tescocadaver]

I'm sorry, I didn't know that. Reading back my comments were unnecessary and I am deleting them

[@samuelsurfing]

An accents is strongly influenced by an individuals time spent in an elite education institution. In public schools children are, or at least were, taught to speak properly and and were put through elocution classes. This is then carried on to higher education where an accent is established by the student community. Oxford, for example, has an accent.

[@scottvska]

@sambar0986 Thank you.

[@aquemini154]

he hadn't met her yet when he gave this interview....

[@benbunyip]

@benhughes163 Yeah, cooly tells the truth.

[@sambar0986]

@scottvska 1993

[@karenmalone4449]

Good Lord. He was an insufferable pratt even then.