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...True literary heroes, for Amis, lay across the Atlantic: Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth. And he was out to shock....
...In the last three decades, he confined himself mostly to writing on his idols (Bellow and Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, Jane Austen, Philip Larkin) and a few senior peers (Updike, Roth, Ballard, DeLillo)....
...It feels like Beauman is in one corner with his obvious influences — Martin Amis, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth — writing novels that are maximalist and loquacious, bursting at the seams with ideas and ripe...
...While Amis stops short of Philip Roth’s Patrimony in his account of a loved one’s cancer, he is explicit enough....
...But it is also elegiac about the spirits of those dead white male authors (Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow are name-checked; Kingsley Amis haunts unannounced) who wrote the type of book that inspired...
...Philip Roth, his former client, died last year and HBO is making Roth’s novel The Plot Against America (2004) into a six-part series, starring Winona Ryder and Zoe Kazan....
...He says of Philip Roth, who retired from writing at 79: “I think he’d written himself out. He did write a lot of books about Philip Roth, essentially....
...Martin Amis wrote about Roth that “a curious side-effect of autobiographical fiction is that it puts the reader in a state of salacious curiosity about the author’s private life”....
...Martin Amis and Ian McEwan were well-known accumulators of column inches; Salman Rushdie, also included in the volume, had already won the Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children....
...As Martin Amis wrote in 1983: “When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.”...
...He has access to stuff that wasn’t available to Atlas — a memoir by Bellow’s second wife, a mass of manuscript materials, transcripts of long conversations between Bellow and Philip Roth — and makes intelligent...
...Maschler, now 80, has introduced a stream of prestigious writers to the British public, including John Fowles, Philip Roth, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan...
...Roth Man, as Amis once called him, is sex-obsessed, narcissistic, garrulous, often raging. He knows no bounds. He is wary of commitment. He relentlessly asserts his individuality....
...In one line, Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, critics of Islam, are described as “sanctimonious British bullies”. Is that his view?...
...Amis, as was Foster Wallace, is a tennis fan, and even plays recreationally....
...He entered a buoyant literary scene, embracing Ian Hamilton at the New Review, and writers Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens and Barnes....
...(He is rather like Philip Roth’s David Kepesh: celebrity journalist, upmarket talkshow star, libertine, scourge of bourgeois respectability and conventional behaviour.)...
...Some of the choices are predictable: there are pieces on Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, JM Coetzee’s Disgrace and Ian McEwan’s Atonement....
...Philip Roth, whose latest novel came out this week, is merely a $399 man for signing the first three paragraphs of Portnoy’s Complaint....
...The letters to other writers, including Martin Amis and Philip Roth, reveal that quirkiness, odd beliefs, rich enthusiasms, intellectual independence and eloquent friendship are what he valued most, in his...
...As with Philip Roth in the 1990s, the evidence points to a late-period flowering for McEwan. The backlashers will have to put away their knives and wait for the next book....
...You shouldn’t do this kind of thing, said Kingsley Amis, when young Martin went ahead and did it by introducing “Martin Amis” into Self, the narrator of Money....
...For instance, critics in the literary pages lionised Martin Amis for the time-in-reverse conceit of Time’s Arrow, while SF greybeards sighed and pointed out that, as is so often the case, Philip K....
...In other words, they are all recognisably the same man: “Roth Man”, as Martin Amis once called him....
...Often, but they’re mixed in together: Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, Philip Roth. What novel would you give your own child to introduce them to literature? The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger....
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