Martin Amis

Bat Segundo DVDs Now on Sale!

We’ve received a few requests from listeners asking us how they can get DVD-ROMs of the show. And since Christmas shopping has started, and some of you out there may be on the lookout for a literary stocking stuffer, we’ve...

Library Diva added the blog post 'Dude Lit'

You know I love chick lit, as sort of a "guilty pleasure." I wondered why it was specific to men, as there are some damn good books on here, but I guess that probably has to do with it being a men's magazine, like "The Ten...

The Steyn Hugger ... Mark Steyn

Steyn on Books FRIDAY, 18 APRIL 2008 In The Village Voice the other week, the playwright David Mamet recently outed himself as a liberal apostate and revealed that he's begun reading conservative types like Milton Friedman and...

Ask the pilot: Tedium in the age of terror: 9/11, Martin Amis and the real legacy of Mohamed Atta

A pair of rebuttals to get things going: Last week's column -- an open letter to the president-elect, outlining six things he should do to improve air travel -- drew about 50 letters to the editor. One of them came from a...

Andy Murray reaches Masters Cup semifinals in Shanghai

As a young boy, Andy Murray was always one roll of the dice away from landing on Mayfair or Park Lane and throwing the Monopoly board into the air. By Mark Hodgkinson in Shanghai On a roll:Andy Murray plays a backhand during...

David T on Anti-Muslim Bigotry

David T who writes at Harry's Place is one of the few bloggers who I find myself in complete, unqualified agreement with almost all the time. When I first started reading his posts some years ago, I was surprised that material...

Robert Pattinson on Virgil and Martin Amis, and on looking like an 'alien'

As if we haven't bombarded you with enough Robert Pattinson (as if there's such a thing as too much Rob!), get ready for your daily fix, Twilighters. Here's Part 2 of our interview, where the man behind Edward Cullen talks...

A delicate balance

Journalist, essayist, novelist, public intellectual and citizen of the world: Ian Buruma is all this and more, writes Ben Naparstek | November 08, 2008 ON a weeknight at the 2007 New Yorker Festival, a fashionable young crowd...

The Life of a Long-Distance Writer: a Biography of Alan Sillitoe - review

I was an 18-year-old sixth-former in 1958, and I remember the stir caused by Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, when, as Richard Bradford writes in this gripping biography, Sillitoe "became an overnight superstar". It was the...

Conrad Persons: Will Barack Obama's success trickle down to a local level?

Obama has done his part, now we must do ours If this election really is about us, as the president-elect likes to say it is, we should be taking a long, hard look at ourselves At Alibi, a decrepit old shack that probably...

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