{"id":1088,"date":"2009-08-25T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/08\/happy-birthday-martin-amis.html"},"modified":"2009-08-25T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:50:00","slug":"happy-birthday-martin-amis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/08\/happy-birthday-martin-amis.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Martin Amis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SpResfBJIUI\/AAAAAAAAAYQ\/e7IBQbWM0TU\/s1600-h\/amis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SpResfBJIUI\/AAAAAAAAAYQ\/e7IBQbWM0TU\/s320\/amis.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>While he&#8217;s dropped out of sight a bit recently, martin amis helped put his generation of british writers on the map with brilliant novels like &#8220;the rachel papers&#8221; and &#8220;money.&#8221; his memoir, &#8220;experience,&#8221; with much about his father kingsley amis, is something close to a masterpiece, and i&#8217;m a longtime fan of his essays and criticism, especially those collected in &#8220;visiting mrs. nabokov.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i&#8217;ve spoken to amis several times, a wittier man you will never meet. today the onetime enfant terrible, now grandfather, turns 60. he now teaches in one of my favorite english cities, manchester.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2004\/apr\/23\/entertainment\/et-timberg23\">Here<\/a> is my piece on amis from a few years, when he was laughing off the savaging he&#8217;d gotten in the british press over &#8220;yellow dog.&#8221; he was getting ready for an event at UCLA&#8217;s royce hall, with christopher hitchens. after amis went back to his hotel, hitch invited me for a drink &#8212; i had iced tea, he a double of johnny walker. it was noon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Either way, Happy birthday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he&#8217;s dropped out of sight a bit recently, martin amis helped put his generation of british writers on the map with brilliant novels like &#8220;the rachel papers&#8221; and &#8220;money.&#8221; his memoir, &#8220;experience,&#8221; with much about his father kingsley amis, is something close to a masterpiece, and i&#8217;m a longtime fan of his essays and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,473,472],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-hitchens","8":"category-martin-amis","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}