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Faux Amis? Or, the art of the nonvel

Friday, October 9, 2020

Inside Story: a novel / How to Write By Martin Amis Jonathan Cape £20 . It is traditionally ‘not done’ to review books in terms of what they’re not. And yet: this book is not a novel. It says it is on the front cover; but it isn’t. And Martin Amis makes it clear it’s […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged 9/11, Amazon, autobiography, Brexit, Christopher Hitchens, criticism, death, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Jane Howard, food, Germany, James Fenton, Jonathan Cape, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Mystic Meg, Nabokov, nonvels, Philip Larkin, pilates, publishing, Robert Conquest, rugby, Salman Rushdie, Saul Bellow, sex, Solzhenitsyn, terrorism, the Gulag, the Holocaust, The New Yorker, The Oldie | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, March 12, 2018

. The average salary of professors at Dublin University is £530. — The Nelson Evening Mail, March 14 1907 . Wherever there is a fire that ravages everything in its path, the protea is the first thing to regenerate. Clive James once voluntarily interviewed the Spice Girls. Manchester has become ‘Womanchester’. Cineworld has landed in […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged academia, America, army, bowls, Cineworld, domestic affairs, Donald Trump, drink, Dublin, education, Elon Musk, employment, engineering, film, finance, flora, Journalism, Kanye West, law, Manchester, music, Nelson Evening Mail, nomenclature, Oscar Wilde, pastry, retirement, South Africa, space travel, technology, the Congo, the Spice Girls, Um Bongo, university, Weston-super-Mare, women, work | Comments (0)

In which the author expresses his love for Wendy Cope

Friday, January 29, 2010

Diary from the Galle Literary Festival (preamble).

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Antoine de St Exupéry, Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper, Ashok Ferrey, Bevis Bawa, Claire Tomalin, Erich Kastner, Galle Literary Festival, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Ian Rankin, Kingsley Amis, literature, Louise Doughty, Michael Frayn, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Shyam Selvadurai, Wendy Cope, WG Sebald | Comments (0)