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The Book of Lists: Abridged
2008-05-23 02:13:00 Just watched 'Charlie Wilson's War'. Wellmade (as to be expected from Mike Nichol's with a high-powered cast), but very uncritical and not nearly as intelligent as it thinks.Boss retires next week so big party tomorrow night. Mental note: don't get too drunk! Well, that's stupid. Mental note revised: try to be nice drunk.Rental of this apartment nearly completed until the landlord decided to change the agreement we had agreed on. I have revised the revised agreement and await eviction.Feel like I've been on auto-pilot these last few weeks; not much to get excited about.Recently read Martin Amis's 'The Rachel Papers'. Smart writer, but shallower than a stream in the Sahara. Of course, 'shallow' is part of the point of a book that has a truly obnoxious 19 year-old as the protagonist. That we read to the end is testament to Amis's smartness. Or maybe it's just the sex.Gave maths grinds last night to an aunt of mine. Without a steady diet of 'Texts and Tests', ...
Martin Amis:" fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life"
2008-04-23 17:47:00 Isabel Fonseca on an interview,?Well it is fiction,? she said last month over lunch at the River Café in Brooklyn, where one of the book?s scenes takes place. ?The character is really not me at all. I didn?t consciously avoid any of the parallels, but I didn?t seek them either. It wasn?t a special area of play. I just didn?t worry about it.??Attachment? came about largely by accident, Mr. Fonseca explained. When she began it, she and Mr. Amis were living in Uruguay, where they had moved partly just to get away from London and partly because she hoped to work on a book about that country and her family?s history there. ?Uruguay is a fascinating little country that?s very dear to me in some unearned way,? she said. Her older sister, Quina, has lived thereon and off for years, an aunt has a daily radio show in the capital, Montevideo, and one of her cousins was imprisoned for two years during the military dictatorship o the 70s.?I never imagined that I?d spend half my life in England,...
Scribes of Hate: Culture Vultures and the Terror War - on Martin Amis
2007-11-21 21:01:00 by Chris Floyd I'm sure that a great many Americans don't know who Martin Amis is. If they do, they are more likely to know him as the author of "The Rachel Papers," which was made into quirky teen-comes-of-age movie years ago, or perhaps as the son of Kingsley Amis, whose acerbic, slightly racy (for their day) novels were once mainstays on the British literary scene. But Martin himself has become something of a Brit mainstay in his middle age, routinely touted as one of the island's top writers and definitely one of the glitterati on the literary scene. He is also one of a number of writers on both sides of the Atlantic who were so traumatized by 9/11 that their political polarities were completely reversed. Once rakish, left-of-center, somewhat anti-Establishment types, they suddenly became ardent champions of Authority, cheering on the great Leaders who would keep them safe. (Amis even embedded himself with Blair for intimate portraits of the g...
Martin Amis - The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to Americ
2006-12-13 15:20:07 From O, The Oprah Magazine : Zoe Heller’s Bookshelf, December 2006 The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis From the Publisher : With mixed feelings of wonder and trepidation, the brilliant British writer Martin Amis approaches America and introduces this sharp and thoroughly stimulating collection of “American” pieces. From Claus von Bulow to the New Evangelists, little escapes Amis’ curiosity. Customer Rating: Read Reviews (Over 6 reviews!) Tags: The, Moronic, Inferno, and, Other, Visits, to, America, Martin, Amis, New, York, Miss, Didion, Gore, Vidal, Palm, Beach, Ronald, Reagan,, Diana, Trilling, Norman, Mailer, Saul, Bellow, Truman, Capote, Jerry, Falwell, Vanity, Fair, Body, Double, Brian, De, Palma, Joseph, Heller, Kurt, Vonnegut, Los, Angeles, Claremont, Avenue, Jackie, Kennedy, San, Francisco, William, Burroughs, Albert, Corde, Forty-Second, Street, Humboldt's, Gift, Late, Bellow, Moral, Majority, zoe, heller, nate, berkus...
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