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Podcast: TudoRama
Episode: Obituary: Martin Amis ‘The Mick Jagger of Literature’
Description: Send us Fan MailThe writer Martin Amis, (1949-2023), died this week after a life in the literary spotlight. His appointment as a professor at Manchester University, in the late 2000s resulted in a storm in a literary tea-cup. The academic spat was stirred up with some help from the Guardian. However, in that paper’s obituary this week, it is glossed over, within a brief comment about ‘his stints as a creative writing professor at Manchester University’.My recollection of the time is of the arrival of a celebrity within the circle...