Ellen, Barbara. “The Life of Germaine Greer review—an elusive firebrand”. theguardian.com, 18 Nov. 2018.
Martin Amis
Standard Name: Amis, Martin
Connections
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Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine Greer | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | They had been living together for more than a year, and EJH
had already embarked on the difficult stepmother relationship with the three Amis children—especially the two boys, who were living with them, and were... |
Friends, Associates | Zadie Smith | Through a Cambridge friend ZS
met (while she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, not a published writer) Ian McEwan
and Martin Amis
. It was at McEwan's wedding celebration, a party full of people from my... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Rendell | There RR
lent out estate cottages to avant-garde writers younger than herself, such as Martin Amis
, Julian Barnes
, and Jeanette Winterson
, to provide them with a place to write. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 627 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. qtd. in Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994. 38 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Before beginning this novel she asked the advice of her stepson Martin Amis
to help her choose between this and a present-day version of Austen
's Sense and Sensibility. He opted unhesitatingly for the... |
Literary responses | Zadie Smith | On the basis of this novel, The Times hailed ZS
as canonical, one of a handful of contemporary novelists who really matter and who, we may confidently assume, will last. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Ruth Scurr
in the Telegraph judged EJH
to be as impressive a writer as ever in this novel, and instanced her handling of dialogue among children. Scurr, Ruth. “All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, review”. The Telegraph, 16 Nov. 2013. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
's stepson and fellow novelist Martin Amis
has written that Howard (with Iris Murdoch
) was the most interesting woman writer of her generation. Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape, 2000. 215 |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG
worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press
at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at... |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Reception | Anita Brookner | This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson
, centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist... |
Reception | A. S. Byatt | David Jays
, in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB
, Zadie Smith
, A. L. Kennedy
, Sarah Waters
... |
Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Timeline
By 20 September 1953: Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie...
Writing climate item
By 20 September 1953
Saul Bellow
published The Adventures of Augie March. Martin Amis
, in later hailing this as the first American novel to show an immigrant as a rightful Discoverer, or a pioneer,
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2008
Spring 1983: Granta magazine's first listing of twenty...
Writing climate item
Spring 1983
Granta magazine's first listing of twenty Best of Young British Novelists included the names of six women: Pat Barker
, Ursula Bentley
, Buchi Emecheta
, Maggie Gee
, Lisa St Auban de Teran
, and Rose Tremain
.
Taylor, David John. “Why these Men Killed the Hampstead Novel”. The Independent on Sunday, 29 Dec. 2002, p. Life Etc. 8.
Life Etc. 8
By 5 October 1984: Martin Amis published a virtuoso, highly...
Writing climate item
By 5 October 1984
Martin Amis
published a virtuoso, highly self-referential novel entitled Money: A Suicide Note.
Korn, Eric. “Frazzled yob-gene lag-jag”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4253, 5 Oct. 1984, p. 1119.
1119
Texts
Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape, 2000.