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"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott

"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott

Update: 2023-11-24
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Columnist, podcast and book reviewer for The London Times James Marriott joins Jack Aldane on Episode 5 to discuss The War Against Cliché , an anthology of Martin Amis's reviews and essays from 1971 to 2000. It was the book that changed James's approach to life, and especially writing.


James tells Jack why, despite his never having been a devotee to Amis the novelist, Amis's journalism contains by far some of the cleverest, funniest and most galvanising opinions on literature you’ll ever encounter.


The War Against Cliché remains, he says, the book which makes him want to write more than any other, and without which producing book reviews would be a whole lot less fun.


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"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott

"Nobody has influenced my writing more than Martin Amis." James Marriott