"a shattering string of pearls; an unknown daughter emerging at 18 – are unbeatable, and Amis makes of them a loving, perceptive, comic portrait."" ""Experience"" was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. Experience (Martin Amis) Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis. The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, and was first published in 2000. Upon publication, ""Experience"" was serialized in the U.K.s ""The Guardian"" in four parts. Critical response to Amis's memoir was very warm. The critic James"
"Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ""Experience"" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for ""Time's Arrow"" and longlisted in 2003 for ""Yellow Dog""). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, ""The Times"" named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945."
"The Letters of Kingsley Amis The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001) was assembled and edited by the American literary critic Zachary Leader. It is a collection of more than 800 letters from Amis to many different friends and professional acquaintances from 1941 until shortly before his death in 1995. About one quarter of the letters selected were addressed to Amis's close friend, the poet Philip Larkin. The other recipients of letters included in the book include: The publication of the book was concurrent with that of ""Experience"", a memoir by Kingsley Amis's son, the novelist Martin Amis. The author David"
"literature, terrorism, religion, Philip Larkin, science, Britishness, suicide, sex, ageing, his 2010 novel ""The Pregnant Widow"", violence, film, the short story, and America). Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ""Experience"" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for ""Time's Arrow"" and longlisted in 2003 for ""Yellow Dog""). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New"
"Martin Amis comes in."" ""Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself,"" Kingsley complained. His first novel ""The Rachel Papers"" (1973) – written at Lemmons, the family home in north London – won the Somerset Maugham Award. The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager (which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university. He also wrote the screenplay for the film ""Saturn 3"", an experience which he was to draw on for"
"wrote that this view is ""[n]ot the ramblings of a British National Party thug, [...] but the reflections of Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary world"". In a highly critical article in the ""Guardian"" ""The absurd world of Martin Amis"" satirist Chris Morris likened Amis to the Muslim cleric Abu Hamza (who was jailed for inciting racial hatred in 2006), suggesting that both men employ ""mock erudition, vitriol and decontextualised quotes from the Qu'ran"" to incite hatred. In a later piece, Eagleton added: ""But there is something rather stomach-churning at the sight of those such as Amis"
"John Amis John Preston Amis (17 June 1922 – 1 August 2013) was a British broadcaster, classical music critic, music administrator, and writer. He was a frequent contributor for ""The Guardian"" and to BBC radio and television music programming. Born in Dulwich, London to a banking family, and a cousin of the novelist Kingsley Amis, Amis was educated at Dulwich College, where he began a lifelong friendship with his contemporary, Donald Swann. A serious bout of mastoiditis as a child left him deaf in his left ear. He began his career working in a bank for five and a half"
"quoted writings on ""Islamism"", directing particular attention to one specific passage from an interview with Ginny Dougary published in the ""Times"" on 9 September 2006. Eagleton criticised Amis and expressed surprise as to its source, stating: ""[these are] not the ramblings of a British National Party thug ... but the reflections of Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary world."" He drew a connection between Amis and his father (the novelist Kingsley Amis). Eagleton went on to write that Martin Amis had learned more from his father – whom Eagleton described as a reactionary ""racist, anti-Semitic boor, a"
"character of much of Larkin's private writing changed, as a result of his friendship with a fellow undergraduate from St John's, Kingsley Amis, who arrived at the university that summer. Amis, a much more confident and assertive character than Larkin, disguised his serious concerns behind a facade of jokes and comic ironies. Larkin soon adopted that style as his own, joining with Amis in composing obscene rhymes and parodies of the Romantic poets they were required to study. In time they extended their efforts to soft-porn fantasies in which, typically, ""girls roll[ed] around together twanging elastic and straps"". After Amis's"
"a pattern which was the inverse of that of his close friend Philip Larkin. Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, on the other hand, originally wished to be a poet, and turned to writing novels only after publishing several volumes of verse. He continued throughout his career to write poetry, which is known for its typically straightforward and accessible style, yet often masks a nuance of thought, for example, in ""Bookshop Idyll"" or ""Against Romanticism"", just as it does in his novels. Amis's first novel, ""Lucky Jim"" (1954), is perhaps his most famous, satirizing"
"Robin Amis Robin Amis was a British author, poet, publisher, editor and translator. Although he had studied a wide range of spiritual traditions, including Kabbalah, the Fourth Way and Hindu teachings, it was his conversion to the Eastern Orthodox Church and his relationship with Mount Athos, the ancient monastic republic in Greece, that ultimately defined his life and work. Over a thirty-year period, between 1982 and 2013, he made more than 60 visits to Mount Athos, where he was recognised as a """"synergatis"""", a fellow worker and equal of the monks. Amis documented the results of his research in ""A"
"Visiting Mrs Nabokov Visiting Mrs Nabokov is a 1993 collection of non-fiction writing by the British author Martin Amis. The pieces include book reviews and interviews Amis conducted with other authors, and occasional journalism that Amis wrote while working for ""The Observer"", ""The Guardian"", and other publications during his early career as a writer. Among the authors that Amis profiles are Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard and John Updike. The title essay details a day spent with Vera Nabokov, the wife of one of Amis's literary heroes, Vladimir Nabokov. In ""The New York Times Book Review"", novelist and"
"The Information (novel) The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that ""both"" characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. It is, says Amis, a book about ""literary enmity"". Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull have been friends since they roomed together at university. Richard Tull was a promising writer with a seemingly bright future. However his career flags and he finds himself depressed writing book reviews for a small literary paper and running"
"Francoist censorship on the 1967 translation of the novel into Spanish. In 2012, the novel was reprinted as one of the Penguin Modern Classics series. The Anti-Death League The Anti-Death League is a 1966 novel by English author Kingsley Amis (1922-1995). Set in England, it follows the lives of characters working in and around a fictional British Army camp where a secret weapon is being tested. The cast of characters is large. The principal ones include: At the camp: Colonel ""Chalky"" White, commanding officer, professional soldier, a companionable man, wounded in North Africa during World War II; Major William ""Willie"""
"Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Young Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir,"
"critic Francine Prose wrote, ""The essays in ""Visiting Mrs Nabokov"" are bright; they move quickly; they don't ask much of us, or offend. And isn't that just what we're looking for?"" Visiting Mrs Nabokov Visiting Mrs Nabokov is a 1993 collection of non-fiction writing by the British author Martin Amis. The pieces include book reviews and interviews Amis conducted with other authors, and occasional journalism that Amis wrote while working for ""The Observer"", ""The Guardian"", and other publications during his early career as a writer. Among the authors that Amis profiles are Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard and"
"so they will go off in all sorts of directions. I think it does apply to the debate about religion, in that it's a crabbed novelist who pulls the shutters down and says, there's no other thing. Don't use the word God: but something more intelligent than us... If we can't understand it, then it's formidable. And we understand very little."" In February 2007, Martin Amis was appointed as a Professor of Creative Writing at ""The Manchester Centre for New Writing"" in the University of Manchester, and started in September 2007. He ran postgraduate seminars, and participated in four public"
"book ""The Life of Kingsley Amis"", did no more than summarise his own idea of the subject-matter. In 2009, Andrew Brown, writing in ""The Guardian"", said, """"The Anti Death League"" is a prolonged and furious attack on God and the necessity of suffering (which also contains some of his sweetest writing about love)"". In 2011, Philip Hensher wrote several articles which mention the book; calling it ""fascinating, unforgettable, flawed"" and ""magnificent"". In 2013, Andrew James, in his book ""Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience"", analysed the novel in detail. In 2014, Spanish writer Ana Rojo López analysed the effects of"
"agent. Amis and Barnes had been friends but this caused a rift that was played out in public. Secondly he received an almost unheard of advance for a literary novel (approximately £500,000 according to most sources) which caused what was described as resentment and envy amongst his peers. The Information (novel) The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that ""both"" characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. It is, says Amis, a"
"at Amis by Marxist theorist Terry Eagleton in 2007 following comments made by Amis in a 2006 interview. The Second Plane The Second Plane (2008) is a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two short stories by the British writer Martin Amis on the subject of the 9/11 attacks, terrorism, Muslim radicalisation and the subsequent global War on Terror. ""The Second Plane"" is Amis's seventh collection of nonfiction, drawing upon pieces written for ""The Guardian,"" ""The Observer,"" ""The Times,"" ""The New Yorker,"" and ""The New York Times"" between 2001-2007 and is by far one of the most controversial and"
"of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"" (1951–75), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel ""Lord of the Flies"" (1954), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power"
"The Anti-Death League The Anti-Death League is a 1966 novel by English author Kingsley Amis (1922-1995). Set in England, it follows the lives of characters working in and around a fictional British Army camp where a secret weapon is being tested. The cast of characters is large. The principal ones include: At the camp: Colonel ""Chalky"" White, commanding officer, professional soldier, a companionable man, wounded in North Africa during World War II; Major William ""Willie"" Ayscue, military chaplain with a pragmatic approach to Christianity, an amateur musician; Major Venables (whose given name no-one knows), chief instructor in the camp, of"
"The Zone of Interest The Zone of Interest is the fourteenth novel by the English author Martin Amis, published in 2014. Set in Auschwitz, it tells the story of a Nazi officer who has become enamored with the camp commandant's wife. The story is conveyed by three narrators: Angelus Thomsen, the officer; Paul Doll, the commandant; and Szmul Zacharias, a Jewish Sonderkommando. The novel begins in August 1942, with Thomsen's first sight of Hannah Doll, wife of Paul Doll, the camp's commandant. (Doll's name is similar to Otto Moll, a notorious camp commandant in real life.) He is immediately intrigued"
"The Second Plane The Second Plane (2008) is a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two short stories by the British writer Martin Amis on the subject of the 9/11 attacks, terrorism, Muslim radicalisation and the subsequent global War on Terror. ""The Second Plane"" is Amis's seventh collection of nonfiction, drawing upon pieces written for ""The Guardian,"" ""The Observer,"" ""The Times,"" ""The New Yorker,"" and ""The New York Times"" between 2001-2007 and is by far one of the most controversial and divisive publications of his literary career to date. ""The Second Plane"" emerged following an accusation of racism levelled"
"Thing"" (1978), and finally, winning the prize, for ""The Old Devils"" in 1986. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked Kingsley Amis 13th on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. As a young man at Oxford, Amis briefly joined the Communist Party. He left in 1956. He later described this stage of his political life as ""the callow Marxist phase that seemed almost compulsory in Oxford"". Amis remained nominally on the Left for some time after the war, declaring in the 1950s that he would always vote for the Labour Party. But he eventually moved further right, a"
"Lucky Jim Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university. It is supposed that Amis arrived at Dixon's surname from 12 Dixon Drive, Leicester, the address of Philip Larkin from 1948 to 1950, while he was a librarian at the university there. ""Lucky Jim"" is dedicated to Larkin, who helped to inspire the main character and contributed significantly to"
"Lodge called the ""Letters"" ""a major literary event"" and the critic John Carey proclaimed Leader's editing of the letters to be ""omniscient"". The Letters of Kingsley Amis The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001) was assembled and edited by the American literary critic Zachary Leader. It is a collection of more than 800 letters from Amis to many different friends and professional acquaintances from 1941 until shortly before his death in 1995. About one quarter of the letters selected were addressed to Amis's close friend, the poet Philip Larkin. The other recipients of letters included in the book include: The publication"
"House of Meetings House of Meetings, by Martin Amis, is a 2006 novel about two brothers who share a common love interest while living in a Soviet gulag during the last decade of Stalin's rule. This novel was written by Amis during a two-year-long self-imposed exile in Uruguay following the release and tepid reception afforded to his 2003 novel ""Yellow Dog"". The writing of ""House of Meetings"" ""precipitated (another) creative crisis"" for Amis, which Amis reflected upon in 2010: ""You see those Posy Simmonds cartoons of people by the pool having cocktails and saying into the Dictaphone, 'On the second"
"clients and literary estates. For his business tactics, Wylie has acquired ""The Jackal"" as a nickname. Throughout his career as a literary agent, Wylie has attracted attention for poaching clients from other agents. In 1995 Martin Amis left his agent of 22 years, Pat Kavanagh, for Wylie, who was reported to have secured an advance of £500,000 for Amis's novel ""The Information"". The move created a rift between Amis and his long-time friend Julian Barnes, who was married to Kavanagh. In July 2010, Wylie launched a new business, Odyssey Editions, to publish e-books. The first twenty titles were launched on"
"subsequently obtained by Amis for the novel attracted what the author described as ""an Eisteddfod of hostility"" from writers and critics after he abandoned his long-serving agent, the late Pat Kavanagh, in order to be represented by the Harvard-educated Andrew ""The Jackal"" Wylie. The split was by no means amicable; it created a rift between Amis and his long-time friend, Julian Barnes, who was married to Kavanagh. According to Amis's autobiography ""Experience"" (2000), he and Barnes had not resolved their differences. ""The Information"" itself deals with the relationship between a pair of British writers of fiction. One, a spectacularly successful"
"""The Anti-Egotist, Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters"" was a study of the life and work of friend and colleague, Kingsley Amis. The award-winning ""The Great War and Modern Memory"" (1975) was a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of World War I on the development of modern literature and modern literary conventions. John Keegan said its effect was ""revolutionary"", in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups. ""What Paul did was go to the literary treatments of the war by 20 or 30 participants and turn them into an encapsulation"
"His funeral was held on 20 August 2013 at the Musicians' Church, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London. John Amis John Preston Amis (17 June 1922 – 1 August 2013) was a British broadcaster, classical music critic, music administrator, and writer. He was a frequent contributor for ""The Guardian"" and to BBC radio and television music programming. Born in Dulwich, London to a banking family, and a cousin of the novelist Kingsley Amis, Amis was educated at Dulwich College, where he began a lifelong friendship with his contemporary, Donald Swann. A serious bout of mastoiditis as a child left him deaf in"
"the Kingsley Amis novel and starring Albert Finney, won the BAFTA award for best TV music of 1990 . During this period, Souster composed a large amount of concert music . He wrote a number of important works for brass and electronics including ""Equalisation"" (1980) for Equale Brass and ""Echoes"" (1990) . His last completed work was ""La marche"" (1993), a brass quintet (; ). In addition to his activities as a composer and performer, Souster published a large number of articles about music . Tim Souster Tim Souster (29 January 1943 – 1 March 1994) was a British composer"