Martin Amis interview (1995)

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[@ChrisWoodcock-d4b]

5:42 to see him talk of death, really hits hard . Miss this giant of literature.😢

[@marciodpsh]

This interview should be in a museum, the irony of it is so thick and perfect. Amis wrote The Information as a reaction to the fact that people are more interested in novels than in novelists. The interviewer asks all about the Amis's life, and isn't interested in the least in the novel itself. Then, in the end, he reads, as an afterthought, in a rushed manner, the novel's first paragraph -- and we see in his eyes, in his reaction, in his soft mumbling repeating those words from memory, that there is where Amis's interest lies, in what he wrote, in what he wrote about.

[@marciodpsh]

*as a reaction to the fact that people are more interested in novelists than in novels* is what I meant to say.

[@candyquahogmarshmallow8257]

@@marciodpsh I just came to say that there. You should have just edited your comment.

[@benedictjohnson]

Habeas corpus > corpus operis

[@DougerArt]

@@marciodpsh if what you originally wrote it would have been an even cooler irony i reckon.

[@vinm300]

Yes, a very good ending - very poignant

[@jonathandeleyser1782]

I love how he mimes along to the reading of his words at the end; a man obviously in love with his craft.

[@k219ie]

I appreciate the close attention.

[@gabrielseanwallace3979]

There's no examination or discussion of the book I just read... only the interviewer reading the first paragraph before saying goodbye...

[@1800astra]

Watching Martin here, from the vantage of a quarter decade on, it seems to me that the next novel, the one that would pose the next obstacle or challenge, never really materialised, and we had Yellow Dog, the House of Meetings, the Zone of Interest, and the Pregnant Widow, instead. What got in the way? Life, and deaths, as attested to by the memoir Experience. I believe he still might come good with a magnum opus that deals in a life lived from the perspective of a life about to be over, and maybe this is what Inside Story is trying to work up to. Even so, he had a damn good run, and the Information remains a terrific work.

[@garymorgan3314]

I'm afraid that, after a brilliant run that ended with the patchy 'The Information' and the end of his close friendship with Julian Barnes and Pat Kavanagh (who died of an aggressive cancer not long after; see her marvellous wooden headstone in Highgate Cemetery) he lost his mojo. One or two books are decent but 'Lionel Asbo' is the worst of s not great bunch. Great talker, good fun and always interesting. I can understand why he had it with our dear England!

[@garymorgan3314]

I was going to day a second volume of autobiography but he got in the fictional one. Still could be as ''Experience' may be his best since 'London Fields '

[@JP-ms1dw]

Agreed. I was always waiting for another 'masterpiece' and have unfortunately always felt that never quite materialized.

[@james2529]

Just finished The Information. The cover, quotes and reviews all portray it as a serious work of literary fiction to be pondered and discussed but it is genuinely one of the funniest books I have read in years. Every other page I found myself actually laughing out loud. Towards the end of the book the two main characters are on a plane in a severe storm. Amis describes the pilot literally defecating himself while wearing white trousers. “This patch of (ahem) started life as an islet, a Martha’s Vineyard that soon became a Cuba, then a Madagascar, then a dreadful Australia of brown. But that was five minutes ago and no one gave a (ahem) about it now.” Tell me that that is not hysterical. I have read comedy books that are far less funny than this. Indeed, the vast majority run out of steam after the first couple of chapters or so. London Fields and Money are also really funny. Amis is a great author.

[@Karmazinov22]

I found it hilarious too. Even in the first couple of pages when he says "he woke up in a terrible state. That of consciousness."

[@WaddedBliss]

People often forget how bloody funny Martin Amis was.

[@JasonGreensides]

Yeah it is the funniest book I’ve read. By far

[@hayleyanna2625]

I have been watching videos this past month with Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens and this fabulous man. Brilliant writers, great wits, intelligent and sexy as hell. None of them were uninteresting unlike the gym obsessed, health boring bores today.

[@ruchirchaturvedi7793]

Only the Hitch and Martin can turn a straight man on.

[@james2529]

The interviewer keeps on banging about Amis' divorce, and then about his dad abandoning him! Was he trying to make Amis cry?

[@sappy441]

Hey this is pretty amazing, thanks for the upload, is that a southern accent on Charlie that hasn't been washed away yet from years of being a presenter?

[@algie-t2w]

The fact that someone is criticised for writing a satire on the scourge of materialism and then grabs the biggest 'advance' on offer isn't envy it's commenting on hypocrisy and humbug.

[@davidlee6720]

He and Hitch inveterate smokers who both knew the risks but continued anyway, rebellious streak I suppose. Though both a little privileged and posh - which gave them a little advantage - both were extremely hard workers whose work poured out of them like a cornucopia- hitch in particular - who- but for his demise, could have gone on lecturing and writing forever. A controversial and great loss.

[@timmothyjennings]

Water glass plus a coffee mug equals alcohol

[@Brandon-tk2rw]

8:04 "They were discrete events..." "And separate?" WTF dude! Charlie doesn't know the difference b/w discrete & discreet.

[@williamgass9242]

Of course Charlie only cares about how much you get paid.

[@GodotBeenAndGone]

Charlie repeats himself in every interview with Amis, and also outs himself as a bit of a racist when says ‘even less so’ in the last five minutes when talking about the fact that England is predominantly white. Great interview, but I’m definitely going off the guy as an interviewer. Also interrupts a lot. Seems like a bit of a bellend. Still, a great interview with Martin Amis. Great writer and great mind.

[@amulyamishra5745]

They both look twins...