🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT!
The My Martin Amis podcast is going LIVE in London again on 25 AUGUST 2026 (Amis’s birthday, it just so happens🍸)
🎉 AFTER AMIS 🎉 takes you from noon to midnight with one fabulous conversation after another, culminating in an afterparty for the ages.
We’ll also be celebrating the launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, produced by @CambridgeUP
More detail to follow.
Note it in your calendars. This is going to be something special.
@ae_stallings@RobertAllenPoet This is also worth a listen if you're interested: Chapter 40: The Valley of the …–Jo's Boys: A Little Women Podcast – Apple Podcasts
Quite like Burnham but again genuinely interested: how does the Manchesterism narrative square with @_isaacrose compelling analysis of the ‘Manchester model’- that it is in fact new Labour urbanism writ large: developer led gentrification + devolved money + some bus investment?
Happy to have agreed to write a new book with @VersoBooks. My very talented mate Vlad Bortun & I will be writing an analysis of @reformparty_uk as a political movement. We’ll explore their social base, funders, rhetoric, policies & lots more. Due in late 2027
@evangrizlon if you really want to do yourself in, I'd suggest reading the three volumes of the Reiner Stach biography and using the Benjamin translation of diaries as a cross reference. I've just completed my PhD on Kafka and I'm typing this from the recovery unit
@BarneysRubble0 This was great to read, though I reckon there’s more ingredients: A dash of talent, a rush of inspiration, a sprinkling of patience, and an arseload of luck
@JoeMulhall_ He should be made aware that the number 1 paperback IS in fact on display at Waterstones ⇩ ⇩ ⇩. If MG can claim BS then so can the rest of us
Liverpool people! I'll be in conversation with Saul Leslie about his fantastic debut novel next week, Tues 21st April, at Waterstones Liverpool. Link for tickets below. All welcome!
1/3 of the way through this, which they’re calling the ‘first great supermarket novel’. Very funny, scabrous, moving…a true sense of the Britain we’re living in
Seeing as I’m apparently terrible at avoiding Twitter, I may as well use it for something good — go read Saul Leslie’s new novel! A brilliant, funny and profound book about working at the supermarket