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Martin Amis: The 2013 interview

Martin Amis: The 2013 interview

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Another chance to hear Stephen Sackur's 2013 interview with the late novelist Martin Amis

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Coming up after the news from the BBC World Service, it’s
HARDtalk with me Stephen Sackur. The influential British author
Martin Amis has died at his home in Florida aged 73. Stephen
Sackur interviewed him in 2013 after the release of his novel
Lionel Asbo: State of England. He was pigeon-holed early in his
career as the ‘enfant terrible’ of the British literary world and
throughout his career he remained one of the most closely
scrutinised novelists of his generation. His books were filled
with greed, lust, addiction and ignorance, and yet he suggested
he wrote in a celebratory spirit. So, what exactly was he
celebrating?