Martin Amis

Famous Authors’ Bizarre Obsessions

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Book News, Author Trivia, Author Obsessions, Victor Hugo, Famous Authors, Martin Amis, Flannery-Oconnor, Patti Smith, Author Facts, Books News

By Emily Temple for Flavorwire: We tend to put our favorite authors on a pedestal, and in some ways when we do that, we turn them into characters t...

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Writers Struggle To Out-Imagine 9/11

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Jess Walter, Writers 9/11, Martin Amis, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Charlotte's Web, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Amy Waldman, Books News

NEW YORK -- Ten years later, and our imaginations are still catching up to Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't think art can `compete' with something like 9/11,...

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The 5 Most Frequently Stolen Books From Bookstores

blogs.publishersweekly.com | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Women, On the Road, Stolen Books, Paul Auster, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, The New York Trilogy, Martin Amis, Most Stolen Books, William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Bookstores, Books News

Yesterday, historian and author Barry H. Landau was arrested on charges of stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln, fr...

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The 10 Best Literary Picnics

The Observer | Kate Kellaway | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Emma, Joan Lindsay, To the Lighthouse, Ian McEwan, Women in Love, Anton Chekhov, Jane Austen, Martin Amis, Picnics, DH Lawrence, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Literary Picnics, Books News

In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…...

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PHOTOS: 10 Writers’ Unruly, Manly Manes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Nadeem Aslam, Jerzy Kosinski, Writers, Neil Gaiman, Jack Kerouac, Crazy Hair, Homer, Martin Amis, David Foster Wallace, Bernard-Henri Levy, Malcolm Gladwell, Frederick Douglass, Books News

We were a little bit late in reading Jorian Polis Schutz’s analysis of manly manes in the last issue of Cabinet, titled “Barbers and Barbarians,...

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On Hitchens

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literary Criticism, Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Media News

What idea of Hitchens' could a man possibly grapple with? What new perspective has he introduced that can be pondered, analyzed, defeated or accepted?

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Why I Write for Children: A Response to Martin Amis

Charles London | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polemics, Children's Books, Kidlit, EB White, Martin Amis, Brain Damage, Bruno Bettelheim, Children's Literature, Congo, Books News

I am often asked why I write for children. What, people wonder, could have possessed me to bring myself down to the level of a ten year old?

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On Offer At Frankfurt Book Fair

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frankfurt Book Fair, David Bowie, Book Fair, Orhan Pamuk, Frankfurt Book, Agent Aylie, Eoin Colfer, Martin Amis, Books News

Agents are heading off to this year's book fair with a host of titles from the likes of Martin Amis, Eoin Colfer and David Bowie. In the second of The...

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Christopher Hitchens: 'I'm Dying'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Jeffrey Goldberg, Christopher Hitchens Cancer, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Media News

Christopher Hitchens sat down with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg for a frank and fascinating conversation on his cancer and his religious beliefs. ...

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Martin Amis And Agent Andrew Wylie Force Cancellation Of Biography

The Australian | Richard Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Wylie, Amis, Julian Barnes, The Jackal, Biograher, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Literary Prizes, Richard Bradford, Peter Owen, Biography, Books News

MARTIN Amis has bared his teeth and chewed up a book that threatened to intrude on certain aspects of his private life. Small independent publisher...

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A Terrorist And His Cat

Amitava Kumar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Delillo, Daisy Rockwell, Art and Terror, Martin Amis, Rasas, Arts News

Daisy Rockwell has painted portraits of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, but what she is especially good at is painting those one would call ordinary terrorists.

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Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review)

Posted 05.25.2011

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More Lad Than Bad Edmund White The New York Review of Books "The Pregnant Widow" by Martin Amis Knopf, 370 pp., $26.95 "The Pregnant Widow" begins ...

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'Hitch-22': 6 Juicy Celebrity Bites From Christopher Hitchens's New Memoir (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Gideon Pine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Spanking, Vanity Fair, Cia, Marijuana, Clinton, Writer, Pot, Gay, Oxford, Gore Vidal, Churchill, Martin Amis, Books News

In recent years, Christopher Hitchens's personality has almost always overshadowed his prose. So, it seems fitting that the 61-year-old rhetorical pug...

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Christopher Hitchens Takes Aim At Himself

Alex Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoir, Salman Rushdie, Books, Libraries, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Nypl, Books News

Over his long and prolific writing career, Christopher Hitchens has targeted Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and God, but on Friday he tac...

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Martin Amis: Awards Only Go To Boring Books

Telegraph | Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Joyce, Hay Festival, Man Booker, Reading, Samuel Beckett, Martin Amis, Literary Prizes, Boring Books, Books, Books News

Amis, 60, has never won a major literary award such as the Man Booker or Costa, despite his popular appeal. The closest he got was when his novel Time...

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Zadie Smith, Nadine Gordimer On Guardian Hay Festival Lineup

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, The Guardian, Pevez Musharraf, Nadine Gordimer, Authors, Martin Amis, Book Festivals, Books, Philip Pullman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Books News

Bill Clinton called it the "Woodstock of the mind" while Joseph Heller said it was like a cross between "an international conference and a country wed...

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Bang-Up Books for Summer Reading

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thrillers, The Vietnam War, Books, Martin Amis, Donna Leon, Barbara Cleverly, Tatjana Soli, Bestsellers, Summer Reading, Books News

There are many great and good books out this summer and I will be reviewing all summer long, but for the start of the season I have six books to recommend for summer reading.

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'Writing On The Edge' Excerpt: Paradise Lost In Armenia

The Huffington Post | DBC Pierre | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Funerals, Medicins Sans Frontieres, Doctors Without Borders, DBC Pierre, Writing on the Edge, Books, Martin Amis, Chambarak, Armenia, Refugees, Daniel Day Lewis, Artsvashen, Books News

In the collection "Writing On the Edge," fourteen esteemed writers chronicle their travels with MSF teams through countries in crisis. Accompanied by ...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Carrie Diaries, Book Reviews, Book Review, Jonathan Alter, Sebastian Junger, Martin Amis, Scott Turow, War Sebastian Junger, The Pregnant Widow, Scott Turow Innocent, Books, Books News

If you missed the weekend's big book reviews, no need to fear: you can catch up with the highlights below! "Innocent," Scott Turow The New York Times...

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Martin Amis And Christopher Hitchens Both Write About Their Friendship In New Books

The Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hitch 22, Christopher Hitchens, Authors, Martin Amis, Memoir, The Pregnant Widow, Books, Frienship, Books News

Martin Amis says his new novel, "The Pregnant Widow," isn't remotely autobiographical, but members of his circle will instantly recognize Nicholas, th...

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Michiko Kakutani Rips Martin Amis's New Book: 'The Pregnant Widow' Is 'Remarkably Tedious,' Says NYT Reviewer

The New York Times | MICHIKO KAKUTANI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Book Review, Michiko Kakutani, Book Reviews, Book Review, Martin Amis, New York Times, The Pregnant Widow, Books, Books News

This remarkably tedious new novel by Martin Amis is a sort of messy improvisation on Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of tales known as "The Decame...

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'Penguin Ink' Debuts

ew.com | Keith Staskiewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bridget Jones's Diary, Penguin Ink, Book Publishing, Tattoos, J.M. Coetzee, Martin Amis, The Bone People, Books, Penguin, From Russia With Love, Book Covers, Books News

Penguin Books upcoming "Penguin Ink" series, in which the publisher commissioned tattoo artists and illustrators to re-imagine the covers of six moder...

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The Two Faces of Amis: An Exclusive Interview With Martin Amis

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Amis, World News

He is clearly shaken by the accusation of racism: he spits out lines from the critical articles verbatim. At one moment, it looks like his hand is shaking.

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