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tale103108 07/07/2012 02:00 PM Report
Amis is fascinating and a pleasure to listen. Please post more Amis.
Thank you.
SkyLarkJ 09/24/2010 02:16 PM Report
As always a pleasure and an education with Martin.
Pynchon 08/16/2010 09:32 AM Report
As with Hitch, I could listen to Martin Amis talk all day.
This is another great interview. It would have been greater with less interruptions from Charlie. But at least we have these interviews on the internet.
Love Martin Amis's habit of quoting from great writers. Here, the one from Gogol is an inspiration.
charlizecourriers 08/13/2010 05:14 PM Report
Stalin, Clinton, and ..... the next man of the people. Perhaps the men he loves are the reason he's had an inadequate sex life. There's still time, Marty. But you have to make different choices. Then you will meet different women.
robdverity 08/12/2010 03:47 PM Report
Don't recall it being mentioned (an omission), but contraception generally and the pill specifically enabled women to exhibit their natural 'animal' instincts on a par closer to that of men. Probably more evolutionary than revolutionary.
He seemed to bemoan the ones that eluded him than exalt in those that acquiesced? Is that the high school sweet heart syndrome, or a twist on the one in the bush is (imagined?) to be sweeter than the one in hand?
Smart people are fun to listen to - subject be damned.
REMant 08/12/2010 02:24 PM Report
I am not sure what he means by a sexual revolution. Jealous tho it was, there was no shortage of sex in traditional society. Not only were there been assignations in the Louvre and excursions in St James Park, boarding school and parlor maid shenanigans, but premarital customs such as bundling many would find as abhorrent today as bull-fighting. Any revolution would have to be defined in relation to what we normally call Victorianism or puritanism, and its attempt to construct a world without without sin and temptation. It was a part of the Great Awakenings, the growth of sentimentality in opposition as well to the rationality of the Reformation, and continues in Progressivism. Where Luther urged balanced family relations, this "puritanism" forced men and women into spheres far more distinct than in traditional society. It has rightly been called a feminization of Christianity. The irony of it was that it created the reformees as much as the reform. Under the necessities of depression and world war it abated temporarily, despite women entering the workforce, which ought to be seen actually as proving the point. At the same time there seems, at least in the US, a hopeful secular trend toward classical liberal and republican values more like Europe's, topless beaches and all.