Audio Amis, audio Beckett
I should let you know that Martin Amis is interviewed by Adam Mars-Jones on BBC Radio 3’s Nightwaves programme. You can listen to it online by clicking on the “Friday” programme link. It’ll disappear next Friday, I suppose. I’m listening to it now. Might as well. He’s a good interviewee.
A writer whom Martin Amis doesn’t rate (and talks about negatively in this interview), and never once gave a taped interview - in fact there is no known recording of his voice - is Samuel Beckett. Today, I had one of those moments in a bookshop. Molloy - the first book of the Trilogy - has been turned into an audio book. I looked at it longingly. But, fuck, it had a price ticket of �27.99. Amazon reduce it by eight pounds and forty pence (I’ve put it on my wishlist!). I’d love to hear the whole Trilogy eventually. Harold Pinter once read out the final few pages of The Unnameable on the same Radio 3. It was stunning, even if he did a Not I on it.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Martin Amis Website Returns
- I can’t go on
- Gore Amis
- Bookworm: clock stopping
- Collected Bellow Does one wait for the paperba…
