My Martin Amis

Personal stories from writers, critics and publicists about the life and legacy of late English novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023). Host and producer: Jack Aldane Music: 'June' by Nigel Martin Twitter: @mymartinamis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My Martin Amis is a fiction podcast hosted by Jack Aldane, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jack Aldane hosts My Martin Amis, a fiction show with 25 episodes published.

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  "I didn't come to praise Caeser, I came to bury him." Will Self's keynote at After Amis

  Sep 10, 202658 min

  At After Amis, hosted by Jack Aldane and York Underwood on 25 August 2026, the writer Will Self held the floor for an hour to give his definitive appraisal of the legacy of the late Martin Amis before packed a house at 21 Soho in Central London. Will Self is the author of 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. His latest novel is The Quantity Theory of Morality, about which he spoke live with Jack on The Booking Club podcast earlier this year. Listen to the speech here, or read the transcript, which is published on Speak Volumes , Jack Aldane's Substack. FOLLOW US ON X: @mymartinamis YOUTUBE: @mymartinamispod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  "Are there any ugly women that Amis affords full humanity? I'm not convinced." Leon Craig

  Jun 26, 202653 min

  Leon Craig's debut novel The Decadence was published in September of 2025, with the paperback due to be published in August 2026. She speaks to Jack Aldane about Amis's 2010 novel The Pregnant Widow , a complex synthesis of comedy of manners, roman à clef, and historical revision that examines the language and practices of the sexual revolution through a set of characters ostensibly holidaying for a summer in Campania in Italy circa 1970. Together, they discuss the characters' parts in advancing the discourse Amis wants us to entertain about what the sexual revolution stood for, as well as those it served, those it cheated, and what we still find decades later in its aftermath. Also featured in this episodes are nods to Experience and Dead Babies , the latter a particular influence on The Decadence . Leon also describes what it feels like to be a hereditary novelist in 2026, and what writers like herself owe Amis for having pressed on with his career despite living in Kingsley's shadow, and why no writer, however well-connected, gets to avoid the unglamourous side of the job. FOLLOW US ON X: @mymartinamis YOUTUBE: @mymartinamispod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  "When you don't win The Booker, you know it's alright, because Amis didn't either." Kevin Power

  May 6, 202655 minS0

  <p>Many a male Amis reader owes his smoking habit to the author.</p><br><p>The novelist Kevin Power is one who thought he'd quit for good, until he spotted Amis and Isabel Fonseca walking on the grounds of Ireland's prestigious Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas.</p><br><p>Peeling off from his friends, Power sidled up and asked Amis for a lighter. Amis obliged and handed Power a thumb-sized Bic, shortly after which Power became aware that the success of this move had emboldened his cohort to form a crowd around a once discreet scene.</p><...

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  "I wish Amis's Substack was landing in my inbox today." George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris

  Mar 14, 202637 minS0

  <p>For this episode of My Martin Amis, we're plugging into the London recording studio of the New Statesman magazine.</p><br><p>From the intro: "Founded by economists and social reformers Sidney and Beatrice Webb and the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1913, the New Statesman has enjoyed a long history of finding and fostering journalistic and literary talent. </p><br><p>In the early Seventies, the paper went through a succession of editors, during which time its circulation hit a low ebb. Among its staff then were two bright talents who became close friends through their employer. </p><...

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  "Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay

  Feb 12, 202644 minS0

  <p>David Szalay won the Booker Prize for his sixth novel Flesh in 2025. In this tense, spare, frictionless work of fiction, he drip feeds us the story of the laconic male protagonist Istvan, who spends his youth in a juvenile facility in Hungary before eventually finding his way into a fractured family situated among the upper echelons of London's wealthiest elites, where his fortunes soon unravel.</p><br><p>Flesh was celebrated as a return of the male gaze to modern literature, and to masculinity as a subject worthy of more sympathetic and complex consideration than the last decade arguably...

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