Scholar of Victorian and contemporary literature; author of books on Martin Amis and Mathilde Blind; collaborator with Martin Amis on The War Against Cliche.
Atlanta, GA
Joined July 2026
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This video was an especially poignant, and quietly powerful, way to end the event -- thank you @jackaldane and all the participants for creating it.
🔊Thank you to everyone who joined us for the spectacularly successful📚After Amis📚live day event at @BirkbeckUoL and @21Soho yesterday.
We cannot end today without also thanking the following writers and podcast fans, who kindly gave their voices to our closing tribute for the evening. 👇
⭐@AmandaPCraig
⭐@alysdenby
⭐@Leon_C_C
⭐@GMonaghan1998
⭐@SimonParkin
⭐@nickpearce_3
⭐@RossBarkan
⭐@BarneysRubble0
⭐@judecook_
⭐@RobDoyle1
⭐@SSamols
⭐@dpatrikarakos
⭐@postpost_its
Heartfelt thanks to @jackaldane and @YorkUnderwood for creating this unforgettable experience -- you are a powerhouse duo! So great to meet @Leon_C_C and have her sign my copy of her novel The Decadence. Much to discuss about the keynote at @21Soho . . .
Messages coming in from among the 120 people who turned out for @mymartinamis last night, all saying the same thing: this was literary history unfolding in real time. We’ll take that.
@YorkUnderwood, pictured beneath with me outside 21Soho, is a dream collaborator. We’re only just getting started.
Thank you @GavinKeulks and @JimDiedrickATL for lighting the fuse, and believing all the way.
Thank you @wself, @Will___lloyd, @Leon_C_C and Kevin Power for putting on an unforgettable show.
And thank you, as always, to our audience. Write to us!
Pnin was a revelation when I read it last year -- brilliant, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. My god, the writing.
Today is the day!
🗣️ TONIGHT!
We look forward to seeing you at @21Soho, 7pm BST, for an arresting keynote speech by @wself, followed by📚 After Amis LIVE 📚 with Kevin Power, @Leon_C_C and @Will___lloyd.
Select 'TIER 2B 21Soho' tickets in the booking 🔗 👇
Congratulations, Gavin. You have been a dream editor -- generous with your time, judicious with your comments, good-humored throughout a long process.
Jim Diedrick retweeted
Guardian journalists are trying to absolve themselves of responsibility by claiming they're progressive. I genuinely think they're worse than GB News. GB News know who they are, are not so disgustingly patrician, and don't function to legitimise the hounding of a man to death.
This excellent opinion piece would be valuable for all those commenting below to read.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Both venues promise to be bangers, but you can now also buy single venue tickets at trybooking.com/uk/events/116…
Check out Gavin's outstanding website -- then join us in London in August 25.
Anyone wanting more info can check out the event's landing page, with full press kit here -- martinamisweb.com/after-amis… -- gonna be a great day
Such a great lineup for the August 25 After Amis event in London -- tiickets still available.
🎙️GOING LIVE on Tuesday 25th August at @21Soho!
@jackaldane hosts a special episode of My #MartinAmis, inviting three stand-out former guests onto the stage couch 🛋️ to discuss the potential for Amisian style and criticism to endure throughout the 21st Century.
Featuring:
⭐Kevin Power
⭐@Leon_C_C
⭐@Will___Lloyd
BOOK NOW for the full experience, including the launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis and a keynote by @wself!
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Looking forward to this -- especially since I agree with Hensher's judgment that the The Old Wive's Tale "ought to be acknowledged among the 20 greatest novels in English."
Required reading: a volcano of brilliant invective, a plea for restaint. "A civilisation cannot technologise its way out of the consequences of technology while retaining its governing commitment to perpetual expansion."
Jordan Peterson thinks climate restraint is an assault on freedom. Will Self thinks the problem runs rather deeper: a politics incapable of accepting limits, decline—or death.
On Peterson, the @Telegraph, and the death drive of the consuming West.
I'm eager to meet my fellow contributors to The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis -- and all who want to join a lively literary conversation -- on August 25.
Just over two weeks to go until @mymartinamis launches The Cambridge Companion to #MartinAmis in Bloomsbury, after which the plot thickens in Soho.
If you haven’t booked your ticket for 📚 After Amis📚, now is the moment.
We’ll be hosting a keynote speech by Will Self at 21 Soho, recording a live episode of the podcast, then hitting the town. We’d love for you to join us!
🎟️ 🔗 ⬇️
Jim Diedrick retweeted
Just over two weeks to go until @mymartinamis launches The Cambridge Companion to #MartinAmis in Bloomsbury, after which the plot thickens in Soho.
If you haven’t booked your ticket for 📚 After Amis📚, now is the moment.
We’ll be hosting a keynote speech by Will Self at 21 Soho, recording a live episode of the podcast, then hitting the town. We’d love for you to join us!
🎟️ 🔗 ⬇️
Looking forward to hearing Professor Joe Brooker talk about his essay "Amis's England" at the "After Amis" event in London on August 25. Check out this video preview.
Another contributor profile for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis: Today's spotlight is scholar Joe Brooker, whose essay is titled "Amis's England." Although Amis has international reach and appeal, England was essential to his work, both as a real and symbolic place.
Dr. Brooker will be appearing with me and 7 other panelists at our London launch event at @BirkbeckUoL and @21Soho on August 25th. We would love to see you there. Links in reply. @CUP_LitPerform
I'll be talking about collaborating with Martin Amis on The War Against Cliche at this exciting event, and about my chapter on Amis's first 3 novels in The Cambridge Companion. Hope to see you there.
👀Come to the literary event of the summer on TUESDAY 25 AUGUST!
The first half of the action celebrates the launch of The Cambridge Companion to #MartinAmis at @BirkbeckUoL.
The second takes you into the heart of Soho for an evening's entertainment, including a keynote from
@wself, after which we record live before the afterparty.
AFTER AMIS is brought to you by @jackaldane and co-organisers of the show @GavinKeulks @JimDiedrickATL and @YorkUnderwood
Book your tickets now (see below)!
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Another contributor profile for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis:
Today's spotlight is Maria Christou, @MariaChristou_ , whose essay "Banality, Evil, and Bearing Witness in Martin Amis’s Holocaust Novels" leads off the Politics and Public Memory section of the book.
Dr. Christou will be appearing with me and 7 other panelists at our London launch event on August 25th with @jackaldane , @wself and @mymartinamis . We would love to see you there.
Book ("Look Inside" PDFs): cambridge.org/us/universityp…
Tickets: trybooking.com/uk/events/lan…
Excellent blog entry by my colleague and Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis editor Gavin Keulks:
YOLO’ing your Book Launch, or (ahem) Multi-channel Cross-promotion for the Digital Age cambridgeblog.org/2026/07/yo…
Jim Diedrick retweeted
📢 August is fast-approaching, so don’t miss your chance to see…
@wself deliver a keynote speech for My Martin Amis LIVE on 🗓️Tuesday 25 August🗓️, as well as
The launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, and a live recording of the My Martin Amis podcast, hosted by @jackaldane. @CambridgeUP
Join us and co-organisers @GavinKeulks, @JimDiedrickATL and @YorkUnderwood for a total one-off this summer.
🎟️🎟️🎟️BUY TICKETS HERE !🎟️🎟️🎟️
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Jim Diedrick retweeted
🗓️ Join us on Tuesday 25 August for a day's celebration of #MartinAmis, featuring a conversation between @GavinKeulks and @JimDiedrickATL about starting the Martin Amis Web, editing Amis in 📚 The War Against Cliche 📚 and a whole lot more.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!🔗 trybooking.com/uk/events/lan…
So looking forward to joining my colleague and friend @GavinKeulks in London on August 25 for this launch event:
I'll be featuring some short (1 min.) vids about my forthcoming edition of The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis. We'll start with my own.
9 of us will be present at the London launch event on August 25. We'll join @JackAldane for a full day of panels, discussion, and podcasting. @mymartinamis
Book: cambridge.org/us/universityp…
Tickets: trybooking.com/uk/events/lan…