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Artikler om Martin Amis fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 24. september 2011
READING LIFE; The EtiquetteOf Autographs
A nice side effect of being invited to speak at literary festivals as a writer is that you enjoy privileged access as a reader. Writing, if you like, is the Trojan horse of reading. At the Jaipur Literature Festival in India last year, I met Steve Coll (''Ghost Wars'') and Lawrence Wright (''The Looming Tower''). What struck me -- and I mean this...
ESSAY; Tennis by the Book
''Wow, what a tournament we witnessed this week, Johnny Mac! Before we came back on the air, we were both saying that we've been just flat-out blown away by the talent at this year's Intertemporal Tennis Writers Classic. Some of the greatest writers in history came and competed and showed us what it means to write extraordinarily well about tennis....
OP-ED COLUMNIST; Times of Upheaval
At the start of his brilliant, funny novel ''The Pregnant Widow,'' Martin Amis writes: ''This is the way it goes. In your mid-forties you have your first crisis of mortality (death will not ignore me) ; and 10 years later you have your first crisis of age (my body whispers that death is already intrigued by me) . But something very interesting...