Jason Cowley visits Amis and finds him wondering how posterity will judge his work London SW1V 2SA No other novelist has ever been in the position to say, as I can, that my dad wrote a good novel at the age of 70…”. Martin Amis is the author of 15 novels and three collections of literary criticism, most recently The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Prospect subscribers have full access to all the great content on our website, including our entire archive. Amis is working out a strange literary destiny in the crowded streets of London. “I have achieved more than I thought I ever would,” he says. You outstay your welcome.”. And he gives good quotes: he's … Martin Amis is a brand name, one of the few literary novelists that most people have heard of. The other thing true of him is that, particularly in London Fields and The Information, he writes about ordinary people without any politically correct reverence-the same applies to blacks. When Britain voted to leave the EU, the country seemed on course for a soft Brexit. If future readers turn to him, as they surely must, it will be for his language and humour, for the skewed, neurotic insight he offers into what it is like to live in London at the end of the 20th century at a time of exponential scientific and technological advance. His very method is overkill.”. He draws the fire from another roll-up. I know that at least ?350,000 of that advance is unearned. “I think all writers,” he once said, “if they mean business, if they’re ambitious, have got to think they’re the best. He refers to his own oeuvre as his “stuff” while speaking in slow sentences of remarkable precision and grace. meanwhile, amis is hard at work on another novel, one which will require him to trawl his new neighbourhoods of Camden Town and Kentish Town as he once again goes in search of all the new rhythms. Money and vulgarity delight him. In any event, it’s not always the case that the figure most admired by his or her generation is the one who lasts. Kavanagh became the agent in 1985 of Martin Amis, who left her after 23 years to "throw in his lot" with American agent Andrew Wylie, as part of an effort to get a large advance for his own novel The Information. With subsequent novels such as Dead Babies, London Fields, Money, The Information and Time's … I’m passionate about bringing together fine writers with great publishers, both within Australia and internationally. Prospect may process your personal information for our legitimate business purposes, to provide you with our newsletter, subscription offers and other relevant information. “We were the only father and son pair that had a body of work out there at the same time,” he says. He was educated at schools in Britain, Spain and the USA, and graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with … In Amis’s Hobbesian universe of brutal competition and rivalrous striving, writers are playing poker for the highest stakes: nothing less than literary immortality, the dream that their work will have a luminous afterlife. He feels that the two Amises embody what he calls “the worst of England” and that Martin owes much of his success to the fact that we live in a culture of notoriety, in which certain writers become “commoditised and marketed like pop stars.” Amis, Marr says, is especially culpable: “He has willingly played up to his bad boy image by posing for all those moody, sneering photographs, doing exactly what his dad did 25 years earlier, so that he has become a kind of negative icon. Ridiculous.” Late last year, Martin Amis returned to Jonathan Cape as part of a four-book contract thought to be worth more than ?1m. 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Amis's political writings -- and public statements -- about Islamism have inspired passionate reactions on both sides of the political spectrum, and I would prefer not to receive emails about them unless linked to a published, non-blog response. “Part of the problem,” says the publishing analyst Christopher Gasson, “was that HarperCollins had no idea how to sell Amis. Certainly his journalism, the medium in which much of his best work is done, is all voice: laddish, boisterous, clever; as is his new novel, Night Train, a short, perplexing thriller, narrated by a female American cop, Mike Hoolihan (giving her a male name is a typical Amis wheeze). Norman Mailer, sane as ever, announced that literary England was in the grips of a gay cabal led by Amis, Hitchens and Hamilton. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). So what do you offer him for his next book? Martin joined AAPS in 2015, after his move to Germany, and has worked within AAPS with such authors as Angela Meyer, Meg Mundell and Rodney Hall. We do not accept poetry, short stories or screenplays. Could you put me through to Saul Bellow? “The whole Amis saga is an egregious mess,” he says. England His precocious talent found success early on. It is Wimbledon fortnight and he is hawking articles on tennis to the highest bidder. His books are all surface glitter. Prospect may process your personal information for our legitimate business purposes, to provide you with our newsletter, subscription offers and other relevant information. There are mini-essays on cosmology, astronomy and linguistic puzzles: all set against a backdrop of dead babies being scooped out of trash cans and the discovery of murdered rent boys. Andrew Marr, the editor of the Independent, is not a fan. Of course, you’re disappointed that you’re not Joyce; but there’s still a chance you might do something. England So much of what he does and says is motivated by the same question: what am I worth? Later, reclining in a canvas chair in his study, Amis exudes an air of worldly assurance; the blue smoke from his permanent cigarette (he rolls his own) spirals and curls. 43 years later, Martin Amis would find himself in the role of literary advice-giver, delivering his father’s principle of writing onstage at the Chicago Humanities Festival. “So late in the century, so late in the goddamned day,” complains Samson Young, the American narrator, who is dying from an unnamed virus. George Walden, the former Conservative MP and cultural pessimist, admires Amis’s modernist daring. You will be able to object to this processing on the next page and in all our communications. For a short man (he is not much more than 5ft 6ins) Amis has a remarkably big voice, a rich, timbrous, tobacco-scorched drawl. I know the arguments against him: that his work is superficial and there’s nothing inside,” Walden says. Thank you for your interest in Martin Literary Management. They simply had a small “i” on the cover. “I am a comic writer,” he says. He has an ear for the rough imprecision and unintentional comedy of ordinary speech-its fragmentariness, its vigour. Martin Amis He is a writer of reckless ambition and one of the few serious novelists that most people have heard of. There is a reason for this homage: Amis is, as the critic James Wood points out, almost alone among his generation of English novelists in speaking with a voice which is authentically his own. Amis, Mars-Jones also suggests, cannot write convincingly about women; because he has no interest in narrative, psychology, motivation or agency his characters tend to be little more than cartoons. I knew London, I knew the literary world; but what I didn’t know was what a skanky town it had become. Editor: Tom ClarkManaging Editor (Arts & Books): Sameer RahimSenior Editor: Alex DeanHead of Digital: Chris Tilbury Production Editor: David McAllisterCreative Director: Mike Turner Assistant Editor: Rebecca LiuEditorial Assistant: Emily LawfordUS Writer-at-Large: Sam Tanenhaus, Editorial enquiries: 020 7255 1344Subscription enquiries: 0330 333 0173, Commercial Director: Alex StevensonHead of Marketing: Paul MortimerMarketing and Circulation Executive: Susan Acan Head of Advertising Sales: Adam Kinlan 020 3372 2934Head of Finance and Resources: David de Lange. Amis lifts his head, peers towards the open window, his expression becoming momentarily lost and dreamy. The magazine is owned and supported by the Resolution Group, as part of its not-for-profit, public interest activities. INSIDE STORY By Martin Amis. 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road And what did they do? In 1984, Amis married Antonia Phillips, with whom he had two sons, Jacob (born 1984) and Louis (1985). Again, in The Information there is a sense of lassitude, of used-upness; and its hero, Richard Tull, is a sexually impotent, blocked writer. Tel: +44 (0)20 7840 8539 Learning from his American mentor and friend, Saul Bellow, he engages with how we live today. Martin Amis was born in Oxford in 1949, the son of the writer Kingsley Amis. Amis revels in catastrophe and obscenity; he submerges himself in the violent discontinuities of the street. In the legendary critic's rendering, re-reading isn’t just a portal to consolidation... Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel, and Susan Sontag have often described illness as a... Jason Cowley is the editor of the New Statesman. Martin Amis and Don DeLillo, two literary lions, offer starkly different takes on the world: Review Leah Greenblatt 10/16/2020 U.S. Supreme Court backs religious groups over New York virus curbs Martin Amis (AY-mihs) ... Pat Kavanaugh, who had been one of his literary agents. Frank Kermode once wrote that a condition of thinking about the future was that one automatically assumed that one’s own time stood in an extraordinary relation to it: “We think of our own crisis as pre-eminent, more worrying, more interesting than other crises.” There is certainly a sense in Amis’s work of eschatological anxiety, of the pre-eminence of our present, with its impending sense of ecological catastrophe and apocalyptic weapons of destruction. George Walden, a Booker chairman in 1995, recalls the dispute. But for insight into the larger mysteries of existence and for an intricate understanding of the human heart (one of the traditional pleasures of fiction) they will surely look elsewhere. “I knew from an early age that I wanted to write about everyday life; that I wouldn’t write, say, westerns or historical works. Such restlessness betrays an underlying insecurity. His mode of writing about low life in a high style, his combination of blokeishness and intellectualism and his ironic interest in porn and junk culture resonated with a generation for whom the book was becoming too slow a form. T. +44 020 7908 5900 F. +44 020 7908 5901 E. mail@wylieagency.co.uk London WC1B 3JA Each letter is recited with the immaculate precision of an actor delivering a favourite line of poetry. He listens hard. PLUS receive a free e-book and 7 articles of your choosing on the Prospect website. According to Stephe Butler of Bookwatch, which compiles the bestseller lists, it sold fewer than 40,000 copies in paperback; its highest placing on the bestseller list was eleventh. Julie Kavanagh, half-sister to Amis' former literary agent Pat Kavanagh, met the 24-year-old writer, in 1974 when she interviewed him about his first book The Rachel Papers. and literary bad boy?). She shares his passion for stylised repetition, for waggish italics and his fascination with epistemology and science. “Amis went to HarperCollins on a deal worth just short of ?500,000. It looks like you are a Prospect subscriber. Unlike so many English writers who hanker after the past, tiresomely indulging their passion for ventriloquism and pastiche, Amis is not in flight from the contemporary. 11) Slates Katie Price There is, too, a sense of imminent apocalypse in London Fields (1989), his impressive work of millennial despair. Tied by a quirk of birth to the writing life, he is unusually interested in being a novelist, of what it means to dare to cover the world in language. Well, if you are Random House you offer him exactly the same amount as HarperCollins. You will be able to opt-out of further contact on the next page and in all our communications. In particular, he complains of the aggressiveness of Amis’s style, of how he bullies the reader into finding his world impressive, of how every sentence must carry the stamp of a manufacturer’s logo. He was most notoriously excluded in 1989 when the feminist writers Maggie Gee and Helen McNeil organised a blockade of London Fields. It's easier to contact the webmaster, Gavin Keulks, of course. Contact What's New Affinities Bibliographies Biography I Biography II Bookshelf Commentary Discussion Events Excerpts Filmography Images Interviews Intertexts Reviews Scholarship Search Site Info. Feel free to email me with any other requests at the link below left. So the writer is trapped in a cruel paradox: he can never know what matters most to him, namely, whether his work will outlive him. We shall see. “The most influential writer of his generation”-to adopt the argot of his publishing blurb. REGISTER NOW Hitchens later accosted Mailer at a party. “The task of the novelist is to interpret the present and the near future, to ask where are we heading, how are we changing?” Amis says, through a haze of cigarette smoke. Very important note: I am not affiliated with his agent or publisher and cannot pass along requests, invitations, or correspondence. E-mail: mail@wylieagency.co.uk For Amis is treated differently from other writers-just how differently became apparent when he went in pursuit of the perfect publishing advance: a move which did nothing for his reputation and which is now seen as a parable of the ills of modern publishing. Martin Amis, though feasting on a literary diet of mainly comics at boarding school in Brighton, eventually went up to Oxford and achieved the highest class degree in English. His achievement, as Adam Mars-Jones observes, has been “to separate beauty from the cause it traditionally served… to detach lyrical language from the lyrical impulse.” This is a considerable, fittingly contemporary achievement. 17 Bedford Square, London. Tel: +44 (0)20 7908 5900 They didn’t even put his name or the title of the book on the cover of the paperback. Martin Shaw - I'm a literary professional with twenty-five years experience in Australian books and publishing. Yet part of the appeal of his books is that Amis is half in love with the world he seeks to condemn. For Amis, envy among writers is “infinite, boundless.” But it is only after death that the worth of a writer is truly evaluated. Nor will his colleagues at the University of Manchester release his personal email or phone numbers. Although Amis imaginatively roams the infinity of the cosmos, as he muses on the futility of ambition in the face of certain annihilation, his characters are resolutely earth-bound, poking around in dark places, never lifting their heads to look at the stars. He listens patiently to criticism of his work: that his books are full of verbal pyrotechnics and surface glitter but lack substance and real human feeling; that in the words of the critic Peter Kemp, he “cannot structure a long novel and his lowlife characters are unconvincing,” little more than motiveless cyphers; that, as his father said, his books “sniff of the lamp,” by which he meant that they are too worked on; that his attraction to big themes compensates for the shallowness of his vision. He distorts and parodies as reality is heightened and pulled out of shape by comedy. If you do not know your login details, simply close this pop-up and click 'Login' on the black bar at the top of the screen, then click 'Forgotten password? Amis plays an enormous register of notes lurching up and down the scale, depending on what or about whom he is writing, without any apparent incongruity. How good is Martin Amis? It was a bonanza. Sam Tanenhaus looks at the final days of Trump, while Ngaire Woods examines Biden's in-tray. I feel full of beans and full of words.” The Germans have a word for this, Machtgef?hl: the conviction that you have the power to do great things. Apart from his originality as a stylist, Amis’s great virtue is his eagerness to grapple with modernity. You haven’t got a chance of being the best unless you think you’re the best.” As I found when I visited him in July at the north London home he shares with the American writer Isabel Fonseca, Amis clearly thinks he is the best, not just the best of his generation, but better than that: a writer who will form an enduring part of the canon. Fit and tanned, he leads you into the huge open spaces of his drawing room, where he checks on the latest tennis action. ', enter your email address and press 'Submit'. I think it must be to do with my dad: I’ve exhausted all other possibilities. Some material in Bradford's book will not please Amis. On 21 November, Martin Amis, the celebrated British author with a literary career spanning some four decades, sat down on a cold night in New York to have chat with journalist Anil Dharker, in Mumbai, for the plague year’s version of city’s literature festival (Tata … ContactWhat's NewAffinitiesBibliographiesBiography IBiography IIBookshelfCommentaryDiscussionEventsExcerptsFilmographyImagesInterviewsIntertextsReviewsScholarshipSearchSite Info. Who’s in charge?” Amis, according to Sexton, “believes that’s how it should be, that ‘human interest’ is a fallacy, that only the author matters. His footsteps echo on the hard, stripped wooden floor of the room, with its high white walls and huge television. This site uses cookies to improve the user experience. His first novel, The Rachel Papers, was published when he was only 24. His vision of England, although fiendishly cynical, is an inclusive one: he leaves out little, from black culture to high culture. http://www.wylieagency.co.uk. “People kept saying that I was the most influential novelist of my generation or whatever, and so I wanted to see what I was worth,” Amis said at the time-an unexpected remark for a man who used to boast of never opening his bank statements. We’ve been around for a long time. In 2020, he established his own literary agency, Shaw Literary, and while he retains strong ties with AAPS, he will continue to build an impressive literary list under his own banner. There is a kind of mean-spiritedness of which I am the focus. The amount was deemed unreasonable for an author who, although critically admired, was not a guaranteed bestseller. The agent Andrew Wylie expanded his operations from New York to London and began to extract astronomical advances from an increasingly corporate publishing industry. “Part of the purpose of literature is to offend your elders,” he says. For more details on the cookies we use and how to manage them, see our, Vivian Gornick unlocks the pleasures of re-reading, Beyond the kingdom of the sick: What literature teaches us about illness. The characters-satirical archetypes but none the less memorable for that-move in a degraded world of diminished aspiration and narrowed horizons. This is the first time he has written as a woman. His voice trails away; it is late and the light is fading in his study. Looking at Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, I ask myself can I read any more pastiche, can I get through another novel that has, as it were, f’s for s’s and spells always a-l-w-a-e-i-s.”. Will Self, Richard Rayner, Tibor Fischer, Hugh Barnes, DJ Taylor: all write with the irresistible beat of Amis’s prose ringing in their ears. “When we read the best 19th century and 20th century novelists,” writes Saul Bellow, explaining why some writers are read long after their death, “we soon realise that they are trying in a variety of ways to establish a definition of human nature.” Amis, in his own noisy way, is stumbling towards his own definition of human nature; but it is one steeped in cynicism and sterility, founded not on love, but on the impossibility of love; not in illusion, but in disillusionment. They were especially offended by the character of Nicola Six, a vampish, sexually reckless young woman who organises her own murder. 500,000 for his novel The Information. “Being so clever he is deeply resented. 17 Bedford Square We are a full service literary and media management agency representing adult fiction and nonfiction, children's books, including picture books, middle grade, and young adult fiction and nonfiction. How ironic, then, if, to echo Samson Young, it was already too late in the century, too late in the goddamned day for Martin Amis; too late to turn his dreams of achievement into anything more than precisely that: dreams. The literary agent Michael Sissons says there have been great efforts to disguise the reality of his return to Random House [parent company of Jonathan Cape]. Register today and access any 7 articles on the Prospect website FREE in the next 30 days. My father is a great invisible cheerleader for me: he wrote his best book, The Old Devils, when he was in his late 60s, and another fine book, The Folks That Live on the Hill, when he was 70. His big themes-Aids, the Holocaust, millennarian catastrophe, the nuclear threat-are played out in small settings: usually the dead end streets of his own west London (which he has now abandoned for north London). If you are a publisher you look at these figures, you look at Amis’s track record, and you work out that his books are never going to earn more than ?150,000. Seventeen years ago, I waited in line at the 92nd Street Y for Martin Amis to sign my copy of “Yellow Dog,” his 10th novel. The judges had been three to two in favour of the book until then, but Lodge went home and swung the other way. Yet his books have none of the redemptive mysticism, the flights of fancy, the metaphysical verve that so characterises the novels of Bellow, who unfashionably believes in the soul and for whom empirical reality is all we can know but not all there is. One of the things about being my father’s son is that it feels like I was born in 1922 and published my first book in 1954 [the year of his father’s debut, Lucky Jim]. By using this site, you agree that we can set and use these cookies. His parents divorced when he was twelve. In this respect he resembles Norman Mailer, though as a literary Atlanticist Amis looks to Saul Bellow and John Updike. He gives it to you straight. Although he never said so, Amis was thought to be unhappy at the way HarperCollins had marketed The Information, though presumably not at what they had paid for it. 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