My Martin Amis
Episodes
"I wish Amis's Substack was landing in my inbox today." George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode of My Martin Amis, we're plugging into the London recording studio of the New Statesman magazine.From the intro: "Founded by economis...
"Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Szalay won the Booker Prize for his sixth novel Flesh in 2025. In this tense, spare, frictionless work of fiction, he drip feeds us the story of...
"Every page of London Fields has a sense of an author in absolute command." Rob Doyle
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the basement room of an East London flat one rainy January morning, Jack sat down with the Irish writer Rob Doyle to discuss the publication of his...
"I went to pick him up at Manchester Piccadilly Station and...he was doing Pilates." John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode takes Jack Aldane to Manchester, where he meets two men who knew Martin Amis in a rather unique setting. Ian McGuire and John McAuliffe, ...
"Amis wrote with precision of judgement, of observation, and with great linguistic ingenuity." Geoff Dyer
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jack sits down with the award-winning author and novelist Geoff Dyer at his home to discuss the Good Book of Mart (as distinct from t...
"I hope writers today can rediscover the verve and energy of Martin Amis." Ross Barkan
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Barkan is a 35 year-old American journalist and novelist from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His third novel, Glass Century, was published on 6 May 2025.On...
"The Zone of Interest records the greatest phraselet in the English language." Vincenzo Barney
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vincenzo Barney travelled all the way from Massachusetts to join a panel of eight speakers at the My Martin Amis LIVE show in March this year. If you ...
My Martin Amis LIVE - Sunday 23 March, 2025
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday 23 March 2025, listeners of the podcast gathered in Central London to watch a live Amisathon, featuring 8 panellists and the show's host.The...
"I should've gone to lunch with Martin Amis, because by that point I loved him." Carol Morley
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Amis's 1997 novel Night Train followed a trifecta of bestsellers: Money, London Fields and The Information. Written as a dark parody of the noi...
"He opened the door, holding three darts. Amis was quite mischievous." Anthony Quinn
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
English novelist Anthony Quinn has met and interviewed Martin Amis on several occasions. Their first encounter followed the publication of London Fiel...
"Martin Amis makes you alive to the possibilities of prose." David Patrikarakos
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
British author, journalist and war correspondent David Patrikarakos was due to leave the UK for Athens in the summer of 2024. Before he left, he disco...
"Amis's prose is sparkling, relatable, aspirational, and authentic." Simon Parkin
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, British journalist, author and video game critic for The Observer Simon Parkin reaches into the more obscure corners of Amis's biblio...
"Amis is one of the best writers of dialogue." John Niven
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Niven is a Scottish author and screenwriter whose books include Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs, The Second Coming. The F*ck-it Li...
"When he died, I was distraught. Only Amis could have that effect on me." Will Lloyd
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reporter for The Sunday Times Will Lloyd sits down with Jack Aldane on this ninth episode to discuss The Second Plane, a collection of twelve pieces o...
"Reading Money was like hearing The Clash for the first time." Graham Caveney
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist and memoirist Graham Caveney speaks to Jack Aldane on this eighth episode of the series about Martin Amis's iconoclastic fifth novel Money:...
"Amis is at his best when he leans into his fears." Leo Robson
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leo Robson is a freelance writer whose work has featured in The New Yorker, Harpers and New Statesman, among others.In this episode, he and the series...
"Reading Martin Amis makes you feel funnier, cleverer, more insightful." Alys Denby
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor of Cap X Alys Denby discovered Martin Amis through a boy at university would she would later go on to marry. The first book of Amis's he leant ...
"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Columnist, podcast and book reviewer for The London Times James Marriott joins Jack Aldane on Episode 5 to discuss The War Against Cliché , an a...
"Not everyone even remotely has Amis's descriptive ability." Zoe Strimpel
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gender scholar, author and columnist Zoe Strimpel tells Jack Aldane about the "sexual sentimental education" she gleaned from Martin Amis’s novels a...
"You have to get into Amis, and you have to get past Amis." Janan Ganesh
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Columnist for The Financial Times Janan Ganesh, speaks to Jack Aldane about the London he grew up in during the early 90s, and which is captured in on...
"I should have kept that cigarette butt." Sam Leith
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author, journalist and literary editor for The Spectator, Sam Leith, tells Jack Aldane his story of meeting (and smoking with) Martin Amis, his reflec...
"For my generation, he filled the skyline." Matt d'Ancona
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author, award-winning columnist and Editor at Large for The New European, Matt d'Ancona, tells the show's host Jack Aldane his story of discovering Ma...
Welcome to My Martin Amis with Jack Aldane
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In My Martin Amis, British journalist and host of The Booking Club podcast Jack Aldane talks to writers, critics and publicists who have something per...