Martin Amis RIP

[Mark Kohut]

“Trump has been identified as a pathological narcissist...He really does
remind you of the original Narcissus, the frigid pretty boy of Greek myth
who was mortally smitten by his own reflection. Narcissus is autoerotic; he
is self-aroused.” — Martin Amis

On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 3:27 AM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> RIP MA
>
> Money, London Fields and Time’s Arrow probably his best novels, although I
> have a few friends who love The Rachel Papers and who knows whether the new
> Zone of Interest film will repopularise that novel (question for anyone in
> the publishing industry:!did the Inherent Vice film make the source novel
> TRP’s biggest selling novel of the last decade?)
>
> I like Martin Amis as an essayist as well, even if I disagree with him if
> he argues his point with style and brio. I have a well thumbed copy of The
> Moronic Inferno.
>
> On Saturday, May 20, 2023, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://twitter.com/mdbell79/status/1660049886933549057?s=20
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