My Martin Amis
Sexual & sensual & sentimental
The My Martin Amis episode is live. I’m so grateful to Jack Aldane for having us. The recording was a scary deadline, since I’ve loved the show for so long, but we did it this week and it went as well as I’d have hoped. Now I’m deep chilling all weekend. Hopefully you are too, and hopefully this podcast soundtracks it to your satisfaction. There’s YouTube for video, and Spotify/Apple to listen in the background. Please feedback and please share. All my best.
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brilliant amis impression
He’s especially good on Jane Austen in TPW (with at least one gag he’d rehearsed elsewhere). But more than that, the main character, Keith Nearing (as the name suggests, an Amis substitute with subtle differences), works his way through the 18th and 19th century novel, with some assistance from the Borgesian ‘infinite library’ in the Italian castle he’s staying at, for the formative summer of 1970.
I think your colleague Nick mentioned Eliot in the course of the podcast, and it strikes me that TPW is also playfully Eliotic: there’s a Tradition and the Individual Talent dimension.