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Preview for 2010: books
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
Authority: 967
The best book releases of early 2010.5 hours ago -
Guardian review book club with Martin Amis
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 986
Date : Monday 25 January Time : 19:00 Venue : Hall One Price : £9.50 Martin Amis will join John Mullan for our January Book club to talk about his 1991 novel, Times Arrow. Written in reverse chronology, the novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and ...1 day ago -
Bibliokleptomaniacs Dig God… and Beatniks
Flavorwire —
Authority: 695
Bookworms are an interesting sort. Some (bibliophiles) compulsively hoard literary nuggets until their shelves sag and creak, yet never bother to actually read their collection. Others can barely tear themselves away from the freshly-vacuumed bookstore corner in which they devour the newest Malcolm Gladwell for fear ...1 day ago -
Old Lags
Topsyturvydom —
Authority: 103
To the Martin Harris Centre , for an event with Martin Amis , one of a series that exists largely to justify his salary, I expect. The attraction for me was not so much Amis fils , but Clive James , who, since hes now three-score years and ten, was considered to be a suitable candidate for a debate about ageing ...5 days ago -
London Fields Part Three: That Misery of Stringers Clichés
A More Splendid Life —
Authority: 459
Keiths account of the football match. Ive heard many such summaries from him—of boxing matches, snooker matches, and of course darts matches. At first I thought he just memorized sections of of the tabloid sports pages. Absolutely wrong. Remember—he is modern, modern, despite the heels and the flares. When ...1 week ago -
The hilarity of tortured teens
Minnesota Reads —
Authority: 467
Charles Highway is a Rick Ocasek-looking, luggie horking, father-hating-for-unspecified-reasons, asthmatic on the cusp of his 20th birthday, which he is taking, like most things, very seriously. He spends the hour leading up to midnight of the big day, which he refers to as the end of his youth, revisiting his ...2 weeks ago -
Gods Poem
The Pensive Quill —
Authority: 413
It is something of a truism that more people write poetry than read it. I once tried it. I had a notebook in jail and a Derry man using calligraphy sketched a title on its cover for me: ‘The Cynic’s Book of Alternative Poetry and Prose.’ It was meant to be an outlet for poetry and verse that was not simply an ...2 weeks ago -
Weekend Reading, December 4-6
The New Republic - The Plank Feed —
Authority: 142
-- Martin Amis on Nabokov --Ian Buruma on diarists in Occupation-era France -- Stefan Collini on the journals of T.S. Eliot --Tripti Lahiri on poverty and class warfare in Delhi --And The Onion asks some average Americans about the Swiss minaret controversy2 weeks ago -
British Library packs its least requested items into new, robot-operated facility in Leeds
Family Learning Center —
Authority: 164
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Amis Experience
The Pensive Quill —
Authority: 413
Experience supposedly comes at a cost. The Martin Amis book of the same title was anything but costly. I paid for it the grand sum of £1 on a visit to Belfast. I was about to catch the bus back and did not want to make the journey without something to read. Little choice but to call into one of the city’s well ...3 weeks ago -
Martin Amis: the sexual revolution killed my sister Sally
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
Authority: 967
Martin Amis has claimed that the sexual revolution played a pivotal part in the destruction of his sister Sally who became "one of its most spectacular victims".4 weeks ago
