Martin Amis: "The Zone of Interest"

That voice, his brilliance, his wit, he is one of the very best, and will be missed.

That voice, that scathing wit, that incredible command of the language... I'm going to miss you Mr Amis.

How marvelous this is!

Truly one of the smartest books ever written.

I'm listening to this late at night then looked him up out of curiosity, and learned that Mr. Martin Amis recently died May 19th 2023 and today is May 30th 2023. An Interesting man.

Stanley Cohen's 'States of Denial' is a fascinating insight into how people can collude with or perpetrate unspeakable horror and yet genuinely deny any knowledge of it.

Rip martin, and thank you

Martin, lucid as ever.

Lucky Jim, written by Martin Amis's father Kingsley Amis was the funniest and most scathing book I've ever read. I love his circle of friends which included the Great Contrarian Christopher Hitchens. I appreciate the subject of his novel: my mother, a Polish/German Berliner Jew survived Dachau but her father was murdered in front of her eyes. She was not a supporter of the state of Israel which she deemed an untenable solution to an untenable problem. She died of brain cancer some years ago and I wonder what she would have to say about the current political climate because she had a bullshit detector like a search light.

Very good conversation!

With the film out now was the first time I had heard this title. After seeing the film I read the book. I had not read Amis before and thought it was a powerful, well-written book and how was it that I had not read Amis before?

easy to reread ,, perfect writer

Martin Amis' observations about Russia and Putin at the close of this (from about 50') is prescient.

this was one of the best nights of my life. i leaned over to my friend near the 34:20 mark and whispered "a shot rang out" and my laugh is the first that sounds in this video. i'm very happy that it was recorded so i can relive the night.

Must have seen this about 3 or 4 times now - inexhaustibly inventive and interesting.

@laRoz67- EXACTLY! You've hit the proverbial 'nail' on the head! Mr. Amis was totally unique in several ways, the voice, and OMG the absolute command of the language is superb. His cadence is breathtaking. Very few. If any, like him.. Will miss him and RIP Martin....

Unbelievable mind

Thanks terribly for the upload. I'm always glad to find new words of Martin's, whether written or spoken.And zoot soot, I think he actually looks a bit better than he did three or four years ago. I have a video of him speaking with Charlie Rose in 2010 where he looks truly frail and sort of like his thoughts are elsewhere (though his mind is very much present in that interview); he does this odd thing with his mouth and so on, not sure if you know what I'm talking about. But that interview was two month's after Hitchens' diagnosis, so perhaps that's what it was. He does look a bit rickety for 65, but he seems every bit as perspicacious as ever. In fact, I'd say in some ways he's improving: he's a bit more measured, a bit less pugnacious, maybe. I don't know. Maybe this is wishful thinking. In any case, I've just managed to write about three times as many words as I should have in this post, but there we are. Our hopes are the same, yours and mine.

Oh, how terribly we miss him now. In this terrible world full of zoological nightmares of antisemitism, never abating hatred. How pure and honest and humane his voice was. 😢

Very good conversation. He was right about Russia, imho