Bell, Julia (2019) Dinner with Martin Amis. Paris Review , ISSN 0031-2037.
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Abstract
Beginning provocatively with the sentence, ‘The one time I had an opportunity to meet Martin Amis, I ended up taking heroin instead.’ This piece evokes what it was like to be a young woman working in the male-dominated (or to put it more succinctly the McEwan-Amis-Rushdie dominated) British literary world of the 1990s. But an extra sense of discomfort is added by being not just a woman but a queer woman. When my friend Barbara calls to say she has found some discarded bags of heroin under a bush and doesn’t know what to do with them, I weigh up going to her aid with missing the Martin Amis dinner I had been honoured with an invitation to. This is another in the series of essays towards a collection called 'Sermons'.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Julia Bell |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2019 16:04 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:46 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29093 |
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