21. MARTIN AMIS'S "MONEY" AND "TIME'S ARROW" Essay by Brian Finney commenting on the author s novels Money and Time s Arrow. http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/Amis1.html

WHAT'S AMIS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION? MARTIN AMIS'S MONEY AND TIME'S ARROW The son of Kingsley Amis, a writer who began his literary life - with John Osborne and John Wain - as one of the Angry Young Men, Martin Amis outstripped his father's reputation for offending the literary niceties of his day with his first novel, The Rachel Papers Conquests and Techniques: A Synthesis (the use of italics forming its own comment on Charles' literary pretentiousness). The novel ends: "I refill my pen." The novelist's transformation of life into text is far from over. Although Martin Amis (born in 1949) was brought up in a literary household, he records that he never read anything more serious than science fiction until his father's second wife, the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, took him in hand in his mid teens and encouraged him to start reading some of the classics of English literature. By then he had passed his early childhood in South Wales where his father was still struggling to make ends meet, spent a year at Princeton where his father taught creative writing, left for Majorca with his mother at the age of twelve after his parents separated, and got kicked out of his grammar school in Battersea on their return to London for absenting himself to appear in the film A High Wind in Jamaica . Altogether he attended about fourteen schools and only won a place at Exeter College, Oxford University, by attending a number of crammers that taught him enough Latin and other required subjects to meet the entry requirements. A late developer, he left Oxford in 1971 with a formal First. Thereafter his career was characterized by early success. He became an editorial assistant for the

22. Vladimir Nabokov Centennial | Martin Amis On Lolita Use of this excerpt by martin amis may be made only for purposes of promoting the Everyman s Library edition of Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita, with no changes, http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/amis.html

ike the sweat of lust and guilt, the sweat of death trickles through Lolita . I wonder how many readers survive the novel without realizing that its heroine is, so to speak, dead on arrival, like her child. Their brief obituaries are tucked away in the 'editor's' Foreword, in nonchalant, school-newsletter form: 'Mona Dahl' is a student in Paris. 'Rita' has recently married the proprietor of a hotel in Florida. Mrs. 'Richard F. Schiller' died in childbed, giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest. 'Vivian Dark-bloom' has written a biography ... Then, once the book begins, Humbert's childhood love Annabel dies, at thirteen (typhus), and his first wife Valeria dies (also in childbirth), and his second wife Charlotte dies ('a bad accident'though of course this death is structural), and Charlotte's friend Jean Farlow dies at thirty-three (cancer), and Lolita's young seducer Charlie Holmes dies (Korea), and her old seducer Quilty dies (murder: another structural exit). And then Humbert dies (coronary thrombosis). And then Lolita dies. And her daughter dies. In a sense Lolita is too great for its own good. It rushes up on the reader like a recreational drug more powerful than any yet discovered or devised. In common with its narrator, it is both irresistible and unforgivable. And yet it all works out. I shall point the way to what I take to be its livid and juddering heartwhich is itself in prethrombotic turmoil, all heaves and lifts and thrills.

23. My Grandfather Was A Racist And I Get Little Impulses, Admits Martin Amis - Time martin amis admitted yesterday to feeling racist urges, reigniting a literary spat that in the past month has seen him and his father Kingsley accused of http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2

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24. Channel 4 - News - Interview With Martin Amis The author martin amis, who has been accused of Islamophobia, joins us live in the studio to discuss his response to 11 September. http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/religion/interview with martin ami

Skip Channel4 main Navigation A-Z Sitemap Home ... Current Affairs Search Choose in news All Channel4 News News Current Affairs FactCheck Meet the team Subscribe About Channel 4 News Forum ... Site Index Interview with Martin Amis Watch the report Print this page Last Modified: 17 Oct 2007 By: Jon Snow The author Martin Amis, who has been accused of Islamophobia, joins us live in the studio to discuss his response to 11 September. But a very public row with his fellow academic Terry Eagleton has become the talk of the literary world. Eagleton has accused Amis of Islamophobia, over his response to 11 September. Watch the interview Martin Amis joined us live in the studio to discuss the issue with Jon Snow. Watch the interview Amis moves to end row over Islam What provoked the row was several pieces and interviews last year by Brit-lit wunderkind Amis, in which the author, a long-standing friend of Salman Rushdie, appears to dismiss Islam as a religion that has fallen prey to extremism. Martin Amis The exchange acquired further momentum when Independent columnist and moderate Muslim Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (previously on friendly terms with Amis) said in her column last week that the writer was "with the beasts" in his views about Islam. Further links related to this article Channel 4 News Best bets for the Man Booker Ian McEwan on the Blair years Share this article Send this article to a friend Related Articles in Religion Cruise Scientology video leaked Life and debt Archbishop makes green plea No room at the inn Related articles in UK

25. A Good Man Goes Bad - TIME martin amis wants a vodka Negroni. It isfor the recorda drink composed of vodka, Campari and sweet vermouth, but the waitress at this rather expensive http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1006061,00.html

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26. Martin Amis By Robert Birnbaum - The Morning News ROBERT BIRNBAUM talks with martin amis about everything important under the sun getting older, the differences between life in Uruguay and London, http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/martin_amis.php

Sunday, January 27, 2008 Currently: waking up more viscerally angry about Bush than ever Digest: Birnbaum v. Martin Amis The Mick Jagger of British literature is out with another book slated to be a hit. ROBERT BIRNBAUM talks with Martin Amis about everything important under the sun: getting older, the differences between life in Uruguay and London, and the best ways to write fictional footnotes. var articleId = '5945'; var articleUrl = 'http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/martin_amis.php'; Email this Save this ABOUT THE AUTHOR TMN Contributing Writer Robert Birnbaum a bookish journalist , was born in Germany, grew up in Chicago, and lived for too many years in Boston. He is editor-at-large at Identitytheory.com and has also lived in New Hampshire. He recently returned to the Boston area with his blonde Labrador, Rosie Just Talking: How to do Things with Words . He may be found in print here and here , in Bark magazine , and in the Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers , speaking with the non-pareil Jamaica Kincaid. And here too Duendepublishing@gmail.com

27. Martin Amis Launches Fresh Attack On Muslim Faith Saying Islamic States Are 'les The author martin amis has claimed he feels morally superior to Muslim states which are not as evolved as the Western world. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4882

28. Martin Amis: Between The Influences Of Bellow And Nabokov martin amis s novels feature heroes of playboy fantasies, unscrupulous upwardlymobile yobs, and charismatic murderers. With a mixture of anxiety and http://www.dactyl.org/amis.html

Link to Martin Amis Page MARTIN AMIS: Between the Influences of Bellow and Nabokov by Victoria N. Alexander (from The Antioch Review Fall 1994) Martin Amis's novels feature heroes of playboy fantasies, unscrupulous upwardly-mobile yobs, and charismatic murderers. With a mixture of anxiety and fascination, Amis chronicles the "cheapening of humanity," a phenomenon he attributes, partly, to the uniquely twentieth century prospect of total annihilation and partly to the fact that much of American (and more lately British) life is dedicated to televised "event glamour"a phrase borrowed from Amis's mentor, Saul Bellow. Both writers maintain that popular sporting/religious extravaganzas give a false sense of collective life experience. Moreover, says Amis, channel-hoppers skip through tabloid journalism shows, cursory reports of sex scandals and riots, and mini-series on serial killers, delighting only in unsavory special effects. "It's a distracted age," Amis notes gravely; "the narrative line in human life is gone," and with it, he suggests, human decency ("Modernity"). Because the "decline of the West" is Amis's subject, he has earned a bad reputation for playing the social critic, or if you prefer, for being a quixotic champion of bygone values. Amis end-of-the-millennium novel

29. Martin Amis Writer Saturn 3. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025007/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP MARTIN AMIS DVD VHS CD IMDb Martin Amis Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works publicity contact news articles miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Martin Amis advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 25 August Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK more Trivia: Ex-stepson of Elizabeth Jane Howard more Filmography Jump to filmography as: Writer Actor Self Writer: Dead Babies (2000) (novel) ... aka Mood Swingers (USA: video title) The Rachel Papers (1989) (novel) Saturn 3 (1980) (writer) ... aka Saturn City (USA) ... aka Saturn Three (Philippines: English title) Actor: A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) .... John

30. Come On, Bin Laden, Make My Day Spiked At a debate in London, martin amis posed as the Dirty Harry of the Western There has been a rumour circulating that martin amis, Britain’s ‘greatest http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3971

31. RandomHouse.ca | Books | Koba The Dread By Martin Amis A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to martin amis’s awardwinning memoir, http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?9780676975185

32. Salon Books | The Sadistic Muse 10, 1998 Feelings tend to run high when it comes to the work and the career of martin amis. Son of the magnificently misanthropic British http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_10int.html

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Books Reviews Black and Blue By Laura Green Reviews Bunny Modern By David Bowman Reviews Night Beat By Stephanie Zachareck Reviews Solo Variations By Beth Wolfensberger Singer Reviews The Vagina Monologues by Sara Kelly Complete archives for Books t h e S a d i s t i c m u s e T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W MARTIN AMIS TALKS ABOUT HIS PENCHANT FOR TORTURING HIS CHARACTERS, THE SEDUCTIVENESS OF SUICIDE, DISTURBING MEMORIES FROM HIS PAST AND LIFE IN THIS UNFASHIONABLE CORNER OF THE MILKY WAY. By Laura Miller F Acrimony, jealousy, Schadenfreude, betrayal and feckless ambition have long been Amis' literary subjects as well. At 48, he is as well-known for his pitiless satires of human ugliness and folly as for the glittering brilliance of his prose. In such novels as "London Fields," "Money" and "Time's Arrow," he applies the height of literary ingenuity and invention to the depths of contemporary life, and the results, while impressive, have earned him a somewhat scary rep. In person, he's slight and soft-spoken, but also uncannily articulate. After a much-discussed (by him) midlife crisis during the writing and publication of "The Information," a savage tale of literary envy, classic Amis, he's touring to promote "Night Train,"

33. Enough, Says Amis, In Eagleton Feud | Higher News | EducationGuardian.co.uk This round began a year ago with an interview which martin amis gave, Terry Eagleton, on Kingsley amis and his son martin, preface to 2007 edition http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2190208,00.html

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34. The Infography About Martin Amis (1949- ) Sources recommended by a professor whose research specialty is martin amis. http://www.infography.com/content/881493498516.html

Search The Infography: Amis, Martin (1949- ) The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is Martin Amis. Six Superlative Sources Diedrick, James. Understanding Martin Amis. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Brantlinger, Patrick. Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994. Cornell University Press, 1996. The Martin Amis Web http://martinamis.albion.edu/ Thomson, David. "Martin Amis." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 194: British Novelists since 1960, Second Series. Ed. Merritt Moseley. Gale Research, 1998, pp. 7-18. Wood, James. "England." The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing. Ed. John Sturrock. Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 113-141. Alexander, Victoria. "Martin Amis: Between the Influences of Bellow and Nabokov." Partisan Review (Fall 1994): 580-90. Other Excellent Sources ARTICLES AND SECTIONS OF BOOKS Ashley, Leonard R.N., "Names are Awfully Important: The Onomastics of Satirical Comment in Martin Amis's Money: A Suicide Note," Literary Onomastics Studies 14 (1987): 1-48. Amis's inventive, suggestive use of names in his novels deserves sustained attention. Ashley's analysis of Money is a start, though his compulsive, discursive style detracts from his insights. Bellow, Janis Freedman. "Necropolis of the Heart. Review-Essay of The Information and Sabbath's Theater." Partisan Review 62 (1995): 699-718. Excellent discussion of the "postmodern decadence" of Amis's novels and whether there are artistic answers to the question of nihilism.

35. BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Martin Amis Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with martin amis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/amism1.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import url(/bbcfour/styles/bullet2.css); Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 28 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage BBC Television ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Martin Amis b1949 Profile 27 November 1986 Radio 4 Martin Amis talks to John Parry about his relationship with his father 4 min 45 getting inspiration from the tabloids 1 min 37 Bookshelf 14 September 1989 Radio 4 Martin Amis talks to Nigel Forde about his preference for novels over drama 1 min 2 London Fields 5 min 33 You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. Visit WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer Martin Amis British novelist Martin Amis is among the most celebrated, and vilified, novelists of his generation. Read more Further Links BBC News Profile Radio 4 audio interview about Koba the Dread About the BBC Help ... Advertise with us

36. No More Illusions: An Interview With Martin Amis We looked forward to talking with martin amis, British novelist, and author of the new book, The Information (Harmony). He is the author of numerous books, http://www.altx.com/interviews/martin.amis.html

No More Illusions Martin Amis is Getting Old and Wants to Talk About It by Alexander Laurence and Kathleen McGee We looked forward to talking with Martin Amis, British novelist, and author of the new book, The Information (Harmony). He is the author of numerous books, including Money, London Fields, The Rachel Papers, Time's Arrow, and Visiting Mrs Nabokov. Like many, we had read the pre-publication publicity articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. The media circus treated his new book as if Kato Kaelin wrote the next Ulysses. Amis complained about being misquoted in The Chronicle, an article which came out the morning we interviewed him. He called the article sloppy and atrocious. Amis pointed out that the writer had misquoted him as saying "desperation" instead of "desertion;" while he drank a "Virgin mary" not a "Bloody mary." He ordered another one while we talked to him in a hotel around Union Square about his new novel. Much hoopla had already been made about his large advance, his new set of teeth, his mid-life crisis, his divorce, but we focused on the art of fiction. Alexander Laurence: Do you do e-mail?

37. Martin Amis A biographical sketch from the Introduction to Understanding martin amis, by James Diedrick (Columbia University of South Carolina Press, 1995), http://www.uv.es/~fores/amisbio.html

Martin Amis A biographical sketch from the Introduction to Understanding Martin Amis , by James Diedrick (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), reproduced here with the permission of the author. In the twenty-four years leading up to the publication of his first novel, The Rachel Papers , Martin Amis lived the kind of life that would be the envy of any aspiring writer. He was born (on August 25, 1949) to the novelist Kingsley Amis just five years before Lucky Jim brought transatlantic fame to its author and transatlantic travel to his family. During the almost ten years Martin Amis lived in South Wales his father's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, made frequent visits to the Amis household. He spent his tenth year in America (Princeton, New Jersey), part of his thirteenth in Spain, and several months of his eighteenth filming A High Wind in Jamaica in the West Indies. By the time he was nineteen he had attended a series of fourteen schools and a series of "crammers" in London and Brighton (designed to prepare a student for university entrance). From 1969 to 1971 he attended Exeter College at Oxford University, where his tutor was Jonathan Wordsworth, a direct descendant of the poet William Wordsworth. Graduating with a formal first in literature, he was hired to write book reviews for the distinguished weekly the

38. MySpace.com - Martin Amis - 58 - Male - London , UK - Www.myspace.com/martinamis MySpace profile for martin amis with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=173973

39. Bill Moyers On Faith & Reason . Portraits. Martin Amis | PBS Biography, resources and online only audio and video of author martin amis. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/portraits_amis.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Martin Amis Margaret Atwood Mary Gordon Colin McGinn David Grossman Anne Provoost Richard Rodriguez Salman Rushdie Will Power Sir John Houghton Jeanette Winterson Watch the interview During a career spanning more than three decades, Martin Amis has produced a slew of sharp-witted, highly stylized novels that have marked him as one of the most original and influential voices in contemporary British literature. Martin Amis His debut work, THE RACHEL PAPERS (1973) - a comedic and salacious tale about a teenage cad's seduction and abandonment of a sensitive young girl - won the Somerset Maugham Award for best novel by an author under 35. Its vein of mordant humor and its linguistic acrobatics would become hallmarks of Amis' work, particularly his early novels, including DEAD BABIES (1975) and SUCCESS (1978). In the mid-1980s, Amis began to explore social and political themes in greater depth. MONEY: A SUICIDE NOTE (1984), turned a cynical eye toward the materialism and unchecked excess of the Reagan-Thatcher era, depicting the debauched antics of a flailing movie producer with a frightening appetitie for drugs, booze, porn, and cash. His novel LONDON FIELDS (1989), a multilayered satire of love and death told against a backdrop of impending global catastrophe, and his short-story collection EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS (1987) highlighted the apocalyptic anxieties of life in the nuclear age.

40. Martin Amis: You Ask The Questions - People, News - Independent.co.uk martin amis You Ask The Questions. martin amis You Ask The Questions. The novelist writes in answer to Independent readers about misogyny, Islamism, http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2154795.ece

var contextSectionId = '1163'; var contextName = 'independent_www_news_people'; Skip Links Skip to navigation Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Skip to tertiary content ... ? CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT People London Search Query: Go Headlines What on earth do you do with a quail's egg? Mark Hix shows you Click here... Navigation News UK Home News UK Politics ... People var articleheadline = "Martin Amis: You Ask The Questions"; Martin Amis: You Ask The Questions The novelist writes in answer to 'Independent' readers about misogyny, Islamism, Iran's nuclear threat and Kirk Douglas's naked body Print Email Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Digg It del.icio.us Facebook Stumbleupon ... What are these? Monday, 15 January 2007 Are you an Islamophobe? ALISDAIR GRAY, Edinburgh No. What I am is an Islamismophobe. Or better say an anti-Islamist because a phobia is an irrational fear, and there is nothing irrational about fearing someone who professedly wants to kill you. The form that Islamophobia is now taking - the harassment and worse of Muslim women in the street - disgusts me. It is mortifying to be part of a society in which any minority feels under threat. On the other hand, no society on earth, no society imaginable, could frictionlessly absorb a day like 7 July. More generally, the difficulty has to do with the nature of national identity; and the American model is the one that we (and everyone else) should attempt to plagiarise. A Pakistani immigrant, in Boston, can say "I am an American", and all he is doing is stating the obvious. Can his equivalent, in Bradford, say the equivalent thing in the equivalent way? Britain needs to become what America has always been - an immigrant society. That, in any case, is our future.

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