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2007:

  1. A conversation with author Martin Amis
    A conversation with author Martin Amis

    with Martin Amis on Feb 5, 2007

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    30 min
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2003:

  1. A conversation with novelist Martin Amis
    A conversation with novelist Martin Amis

    with Martin Amis on Nov 18, 2003

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    27 min
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2000:

  1. A conversation with Martin Amis
    A conversation with Martin Amis

    with Martin Amis on Jun 5, 2000

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    29 min
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1999:

  1. A conversation with novelists Elmore Leonard and Martin Amis
    A conversation with novelists Elmore Leonard and Martin...

    with Elmore Leonard and Martin Amis on Feb 17, 1999

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    35 min
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1998:

  1. A conversation with British novelist Martin Amis
    A conversation with British novelist Martin Amis

    with Martin Amis on Aug 26, 1998

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  2. A conversation with novelist Martin Amis
    A conversation with novelist Martin Amis

    with Martin Amis on Feb 5, 1998

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    29 min
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1995:

  1. A discussion with Martin Amis
    A discussion with Martin Amis

    with Martin Amis on May 1, 1995

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    60 min
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Martin Amis is a English novelist. He is the author of some of Britain’s best-known modern literature, particularly “Money” (1986) and “London Fields” (1989), and the creator of several of fiction’s most memorable characters since Charles Dickens.

Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive style, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. The Guardian writes that “[a]ll his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis complained of as a ‘terrible compulsive vividness in his style … that constant demonstrating of his command of English’; and it’s true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop.”

Amis’s raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition and the excesses of late-capitalist Western society with its grotesque caricatures. He is thus sometimes portrayed as the undisputed master of what “The New York Times” has called “the new unpleasantness.”

Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis