My Martin Amis podcast
mymartinamis.bsky.social
My Martin Amis podcast
@mymartinamis.bsky.social
The podcast that invites writers, critics and publicists to tell their story about the life and legacy of the late novelist #MartinAmis. Hosted by @jackaldane.bsky.social

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🔊 In 2026...

Irish novelist Rob Doyle, author of📚Here Are the Young Men, 📚This Is the Ritual, 📚Threshold, + a forthcoming novel 📚Cameo, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss how #MartinAmis has shaped his life as a writer.

Do. Not. Miss.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ian McGuire, author of the 2016 novel The North Water, reads from #MartinAmis's The Rub of Time, in which an essay appears on the toll age can take on the writer's 'inner ear', and what Amis belives this meant for John Updike.

See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🚨 Listen to the latest episode with writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire of The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live.

Link to full episode in bio
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE!

John McAuliffe & Ian McGuire of meet @jackaldane.bsky.social to share memories of #MartinAmis you won’t hear anywhere else.

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September 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock @mlocock.bsky.social, Amis fan and fellow podcast creator, offers his two cents on Yellow Dog, an underdog novel in the Amis corpus that he argues brings more pleasure than its critics would have you believe.

Here are the 3 reasons why 👇
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
👀COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER...

Friends and former colleagues of #MartinAmis, the writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire, talk to @jackaldane.bsky.social next about founding the University of Manchester's @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social, and the indispensable role Amis played in bringing it to life.
August 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Next episode is taking @jackaldane.bsky.social to Manchester… 🤔
August 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
LISTEN NOW to Geoff Dyer on Ep#18 of the series, where he and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the lasting power of The War Against Cliché to inspire writers everywhere.
August 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🔊NEW EPISODE!

Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the auspicious power of The War Against Cliché, how Geoff would have fared against #MartinAmis on the 🎾 court, and more!

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August 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social wrap another terrific episode, surrounded by the rich archives of Geoff’s study.
August 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
COMING UP THIS MONTH...

Award-winning author Geoff Dyer and @jackaldane.bsky.social reenter Martin Amis's 'The War Against Cliché'.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE.
August 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ICYMI, listen now to Ross Barkan discussing Inside Story with
@jackaldane.bsky.social on the latest episode of My #MartinAmis.
July 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
⏰ NEW EPISODE of the My Martin Amis #podcast!

Listen to Ross Barkan and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss Amis's last novel Inside Story, #Trump and the Amisian spirit of fearlessness that Ross hopes modern writers can reclaim for the 21st C.

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July 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A message from the English author Geoff Dyer…

Don’t miss this in August 🌞
July 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
☀️☀️☀️COMING THIS SUMMER!☀️☀️☀️

Journalist, novelist and essayist Ross Barkan joins @jackaldane.bsky.social in London to re-open📚 Inside Story📚 and discuss his own work as a 30-something novelist, journalist and New Yorker.

Catch them later...🍸🍸
June 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
May 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
COMING UP IN MAY...☀️

Former panelist at My Martin Amis LIVE @vincenzobarney.bsky.social
joins @jackaldane.bsky.social on the series to discuss The Zone of Interest.

More later!
April 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
In today's @cityam.bsky.social, the newspaper's Opinion and Features editor @alysdenby.bsky.social invites its readers to listen to her and @jackaldane.bsky.social's conversation about #MartinAmis's 1978 novel 📚 Success 📚

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April 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
April 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Here’s @nivenj1.bsky.social on trying to read 📚 Inside Story 📚 after Martin Amis’s passing and finding it too painful to bear.

“He was very so funny, and you know what funny is? It’s really fucking hard.”
March 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🚨TOMORROW AT NOON!

@jackaldane.bsky.social hosts a LIVE EPISODE of the My #MartinAmis podcast at 21Soho with a new addition to the panel 👀

@finnmcredmond.bsky.social, writer and commissioning editor for @newstatesman.com and columnist for
@irishtimes.com

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March 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🗣️ LISTEN UP!

John Niven @nivenj1.bsky.social with a bit of news about Sunday 23 March...

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February 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM