Ian McGuire, author of the 2016 novel The North Water, reads from #MartinAmis's The Rub of Time, in which an essay appears on the toll age can take on the writer's 'inner ear', and what Amis belives this meant for John Updike.

See 🔗 in the bio for the FULL EPISODE

🚨 Listen to the latest episode with writers John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire of The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Here's John reading from #MartinAmis 's collection of essays 📚The Rub of Time📚, about watching football live.

Link to full episode in bio

A spot of cross-pollination here as Martin Locock @mlocock.bsky.social, Amis fan and fellow podcast creator, offers his two cents on Yellow Dog, an underdog novel in the Amis corpus that he argues brings more pleasure than its critics would have you believe.

Here are the 3 reasons why 👇

Next episode is taking @jackaldane.bsky.social to Manchester… 🤔

LISTEN NOW to Geoff Dyer on Ep#18 of the series, where he and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the lasting power of The War Against Cliché to inspire writers everywhere.

ICYMI, listen now to Ross Barkan discussing Inside Story with
@jackaldane.bsky.social on the latest episode of My #MartinAmis.

A message from the English author Geoff Dyer…

Don’t miss this in August 🌞

☀️☀️☀️COMING THIS SUMMER!☀️☀️☀️

Journalist, novelist and essayist Ross Barkan joins @jackaldane.bsky.social in London to re-open📚 Inside Story📚 and discuss his own work as a 30-something novelist, journalist and New Yorker.

Catch them later...🍸🍸

COMING UP IN MAY...☀️

Former panelist at My Martin Amis LIVE @vincenzobarney.bsky.social
joins @jackaldane.bsky.social on the series to discuss The Zone of Interest.

More later!

My #MartinAmis LIVE from 21Soho - NEW EPISODE!

@jackaldane.bsky.social, @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social @alysdenby.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social @vincenzobarney.bsky.social @finnmcredmond.bsky.social @leorobson.bsky.social
and @nivenj1.bsky.social

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Here’s @nivenj1.bsky.social on trying to read 📚 Inside Story 📚 after Martin Amis’s passing and finding it too painful to bear.

“He was very so funny, and you know what funny is? It’s really fucking hard.”

🚨TOMORROW AT NOON!

@jackaldane.bsky.social hosts a LIVE EPISODE of the My #MartinAmis podcast at 21Soho with a new addition to the panel 👀

@finnmcredmond.bsky.social, writer and commissioning editor for @newstatesman.com and columnist for
@irishtimes.com

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🗣️ LISTEN UP!

John Niven @nivenj1.bsky.social with a bit of news about Sunday 23 March...

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