Jack Aldane

A perfect match of guest and subject... Every time this podcast returns to a novel it has already covered, it makes me want to re-read it yet again! (The scene with Richard and his son is one of the many Amis that sentences/phrases that has stayed with me.)

🔊 OUT NOW!

"Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable."

David Szalay and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:

✒️The first Amis novel David ever read
✒️The lessons for all writers in The Information
✒️Why Amis was right about style

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🚨 OUT TOMORROW!

David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about Martin Amis’s 🎾📚The Information📚🎾

⏰SET YOUR ALARMS! #martinamis

🚨 OUT THIS WEEK!

On Thurs 12 Feb, Booker Prize winning novelist David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about why Martin Amis’s 📚 The Information 📚 is the bittersweet medicine every writer should take, whether they are fighting their way up, or draped in the afterglow of a literary triumph.

Thank you to @johnyorkestory.bsky.social for a great recording this week at The Fig and Walnut in Bloomsbury.

📚Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power of Storytelling📚 is OUT NOW.

Next up, @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the script wizard @johnyorkestory.bsky.social

BBC Two - Faulks on Fiction, The Hero, Boris Johnson discusses Jim Dixon Boris Johnson discusses Jim Dixon

It's a thing among a generation of males Tories.

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This is Zeret Kitchen, the Ethiopian based in Camberwell where @lucasoakeley.bsky.social met @jackaldane.bsky.social to kick the year off. Don't sleep on it.

FULL EPISODE🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...

I can’t wait for you all to enjoy this one @mymartinamis.bsky.social

🚨COMING SOON in FEB...

@jackaldane.bsky.social speaks to the 2025 Booker Prize winner David Szalay, about Amis's 1995 novel 📚The Information📚, how it helped sober him after the heady triumph of Flesh, why men treat tennis as a modern duel of honour 🎾, + more!

🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

The statement "only a liar or a fool would contest the quality" of his writing, is one I can co-sign 100%!

🎯 Listen to the Darts! Darts! Darts! with Rob Doyle this Sunday.

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I often feel that we don’t talk enough about Mart anymore, so thank God for this magnificent series. Never, ever, stop.

A breed of writer you don’t see many of these days came to London from New York this week: journalist, essayist AND novelist, Ross Barkan.

Ross and @jackaldane.bsky.social will meet again in New York this around the publication of his upcoming new work of fiction ‘Colossus’.

Stay tuned.

IN FEBRUARY...

@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about his new book📚Trip to the Moon📚: Understanding the True Power Of Story.

"A masterpiece . . . genius - funny and wise and occasionally profound - Billy Ivory

"You'll learn something new on every page." - Helen Lewis

🔊 OUT THIS FRIDAY...

Irish novelist Rob Doyle describes how reading London Fields began an "electrical storm" in his brain while on a long bus journey in South East Asia aged 23.

From that point on, #martinamis would be a major influence on his work. @jackaldane.bsky.social

@lucasoakeley.bsky.social and I discuss the mission to get boys and men to read fiction in this year's first episode of @bookingclubpod.bsky.social

Full episode out now on all platforms and YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...

🔊 FIRST EPISODE of 2026 is here!

Listen to @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the male reading crisis, the beauty of Ethiopian dining, his perfect literary dinner date, and more.

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Submerged in the fastidious industry of Wes Anderson today at @designmuseum.bsky.social

Happy Birthday to all my fellow millennial Capricorns ♑️ this weekend.

Thank you Rob Doyle for getting 2026 off to a darting start with @jackaldane.bsky.social and a tonne of congratulations on the imminent publication of Cameo (out 22 January).

Ep#20 of the My Martin Amis podcast OUT SOON on Friday 23 January.

🎉 That wraps the first episode of 2026.

Novelist and literary guru for boys @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:

📖 Why 🇪🇹 offers the ultimate communal eating experience.

📖 How the novel can be man’s best friend.

📖 Why cycling in London is not for the faint of heart.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It's 2026, and here to kick us off is @lucasoakeley.bsky.social, debut novelist, book influencer and food journalist, who'll be speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at his favourite restaurant very, very soon.

Get this year off to a good-food, good-book start!

Thank you, Jack. You've made some of the best episodes of the podcast this year and they've prompted me to reconsider Amis. Particularly enjoyed the episodes with Geoff Dyer, Ian McGuire and John McAuliffe, and Vincenzo Barney. Looking forward to many more episodes in 2026. Merry Christmas! 🎄🥂

@jackaldane.bsky.social with a short message before the year’s festivities begin 🥂🎄

Thanks to all our listeners, viewers & event-goers in 2025. Special thanks to @alysdenby.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social , @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social, @finnmcredmond.bsky.social @nivenj1.bsky.social et al

The tensile poise it takes to write a life the way Szalay does in Flesh is the literary equivalent of performing a perfect iron cross. Just know that the author allows no friction between you and the story. Once you make contact, that’s it, you’re gone. A masterful work.

@jackaldane.bsky.social met Kasim Ali at Salim’s on Turnpike Lane. Take a peek , have a listen 👀 🎧 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social

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