The Amis papers is a podcast reviewing Martin Amis's fiction one book at a time, from the Rachel Papers to Inside Story, and Kingsley Amis's fiction from Lucky Jim to The Biographer's Moustache. The podcast is hosted by Martin Locock, a poet and author, who likes most of the Amis's work.
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The Amis papers is a podcast reviewing Martin Amis's fiction one book at a time, from the Rachel Papers to Inside Story, and Kingsley Amis's fiction from Lucky Jim to The Biographer's Moustache. The podcast is hosted by Martin Locock, a poet and author, who likes most of the Amis's work.
We jump across the Atlantic to a modern noir, with a disillusioned alcoholic cop investigating the death of her beautiful and successful friend. A comic novel light on jokes, with an emphasis on the meaninglessness of existence and the impossibility of happiness. The podcast ponders whether a work that shows the police as bigoted, lawless and incompetent counts as "copaganda", where the phrase "the sense of an ending" comes from and what it means, and whether the ending is as bleak as it seems.
Content note: discussion of suicide and child sexual abuse.
The Amis Papers
The Amis papers is a podcast reviewing Martin Amis's fiction one book at a time, from the Rachel Papers to Inside Story, and Kingsley Amis's fiction from Lucky Jim to The Biographer's Moustache. The podcast is hosted by Martin Locock, a poet and author, who likes most of the Amis's work.