Kingsley Amis

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23 articles

First Reported Jan 30 2012 - Updated Jan 30 2012 - 1 Documents

Paul Theroux

Funny, adulatory, vengeful…

“Writers have no small talk, said Auden, and so when they run into each other, there is nothing for them to talk about except money.” So begins Sean French’s introduction to this delightful anthology of writers on writers.Beautifully put together from ... [ Published Jan 30 2012 by Hindustan Times ]

Entities: Paul Theroux, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway

First Reported Jan 25 2012 - Updated Jan 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Sebastian Faulks

LETTER: Book reviews

English Library book reviewer Anne James seems not to have noticed, or at least has not mentioned in her review of Death comes to Pemberley, a rather solitary fact:Author P.D. James is doing to Jane Austen what Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks have ... [ Published Jan 25 2012 by Tenerife News ]

Entities: P. D. James, Jane Austen, Kingsley Amis, Sebastian Faulks, Ian Fleming

First Reported Jan 19 2012 - Updated Jan 19 2012 - 1 Documents

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

Reader review: stpauli enjoys the jokes, but is worried by the coldness of this darkly comic ghost story ... [ Published Jan 19 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Kingsley Amis

First Reported Jan 17 2012 - Updated Jan 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Buy the Guardian ebook, Jazz: From New Orleans to the new generation

Read a collection of the finest writing on jazz from Guardian and Observer critics, including Kingsley Amis and Benny GreenFrom early appearances in London in 1917, to boogie woogie, bebop and beyond, the Guardian and Observer have been writing about ... [ Published Jan 17 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Benny Green, E-book, Kingsley Amis, New Orleans

First Reported Jan 13 2012 - Updated Jan 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Book of Bond (@ 10:26 pm by The ides of Mark)

In 1965 Kingsley Amis wrote The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007, under pseudonymen "Lt.-Col William ('Bill') Tanner". I have been looking for that one but it's either hard to find or too expensive when I do find it. A rare piece in other word or? ... [ Published Jan 13 2012 by Commander Bond ]

Entities: Kingsley Amis, William Bill

First Reported Jan 11 2012 - Updated Jan 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Martin Amis

Shelf Awareness: The King's English, by Kingsley Amis

‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’, said Philip Larkin. ‘They may notmean to, but they do. / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, justfor you.’ A cracking poem, and certainly true in the case of literary heavyweightand author ... [ Published Jan 11 2012 by AskMen UK ]

Entities: Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Martin Amis

First Reported Jan 06 2012 - Updated Jan 06 2012 - 1 Documents

Sentences twist like trick balloons

From the cover of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. Source: Supplied I MUST have been about 18 when I first opened my parents' copy of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim. Physically it didn't promise much: it was a liver-spotted Penguin from the 50s or early 60s. Much ... [ Published Jan 06 2012 by The Australian ]

Entities: Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, Olive Oil

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Funny, adulatory, vengeful… [ Published Jan 30 2012 by Hindustan Times ]
The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by ... [ Published Jan 25 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
LETTER: Book reviews [ Published Jan 25 2012 by Tenerife News ]
'The Man Within My Head': Pico Iyer's unlikely ... [ Published Jan 22 2012 by Seattle Times ]
Where have all the book illustrators gone? [ Published Jan 20 2012 by The Independent ]
The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by ... [ Published Jan 20 2012 by The Independent ]
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis [ Published Jan 19 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Buy the Guardian ebook, Jazz: From New Orleans ... [ Published Jan 17 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Book Review: The James Bond Bedside Companion ... [ Published Jan 17 2012 by seattlepi.com ]
Book of Bond (@ 10:26 pm by The ides of Mark) [ Published Jan 13 2012 by Commander Bond ]
Shelf Awareness: The King's English, by Kingsle... [ Published Jan 11 2012 by AskMen UK ]
Sentences twist like trick balloons [ Published Jan 06 2012 by The Australian ]
The truest man of letters [ Published Jan 06 2012 by Spectator ]
Critical eye: book reviews roundup [ Published Nov 11 2011 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford ... [ Published Nov 06 2011 by Guardian.co.uk ]