Remembering Martin Amis

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Times critics Dwight Garner and Jason Zinoman celebrate the life and work of the great British novelist and literary critic, who died last week.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, I'm Gilbert Cruz and this is the Book Review Podcast.
0:12.3	We were supposed to be off this week for the Memorial Day holiday, but some major news
0:16.9	in the world of literature broke on Saturday, May 20th when we learned of the death of Martin
0:21.8	Amos, one of the great British writers of the last half century.
0:25.8	He burst onto the scene with the publication of The Rachel Papers in 1973 and published
0:31.5	his last novel Inside Story in 2020.
0:35.5	Of course, burst onto the scene is precisely the kind of cliché that Martin Amos would
0:40.6	have loathed and he would have called me out on it.
0:43.9	Along the way, Amos earned many more plotlets as a critic and an SES of the first order.
0:49.5	I gathered Dwight Garner, longtime book critic at The New York Times and Jason Zitteman,
0:54.0	a critic at large who is also one of the hosts of the Amos podcast of Martin Chronicles
0:59.4	to talk about the author's life, work and legacy.
1:07.4	Dwight, thank you for being here.
1:09.0	It's great to be here, Gilbert.
1:10.6	Jason, thank you for being here.
1:12.6	Great to be here.
1:13.6	Dwight, you wrote a magnificent obituary of Martin Amos for the Times.
1:17.6	I'd love you to distill that just that really sweeping piece of the man's entire life into
1:22.8	a few minutes right here for our podcast listeners.
1:25.7	Who was he?
1:26.7	It was a big life.
1:28.0	Martin Amos was well known almost from birth in England, the literary scene because his
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