Martin Amis

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Martin Amis has been hailed as one of the most brilliant writers of his generation for both his novels (including The Rachel Papers, London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow, and Yellow Dog) and his nonfiction (the memoir Experience, Koba the Dread and others.) A New York Times reviewer once called him "the best American writer England has ever produced," and like any American celebrity, his private life has been subject to intense press scrutiny. His marriages, his relationship with his father, the writer Kingsley Amis, his book advances, even his dental work have inspired reams of press clippings. If he doesn't already have a remote hideaway to escape the prying eyes of gossip columnists, he can probably use one. Let's find out what he's got in his survival kit for this getaway.

His list:
1. The Annotated Milton
2. Penguin History of the World by JM Roberts
3. a 12 string guitar
4. Complete Saul Bellow
5. Complete Coleman Hawkins
6. Complete Scorsese
7. Complete Jimi Hendrix
8. Complete Dostoyevsky

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