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May 12, 2025
Award-winning authors Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Jeffrey Eugenides, James Wood, Jennifer Egan, Daniel Kehlmann, Nathan Heller, A.M. Homes, and Aatish Taseer others gather for a tribute and celebration of Martin Amis.
“What I’ve tried to do is to create a high style to describe low things,” Martin Amis once told The New York Times Book Review. Burning bright in the literary firmament for 50 years, his scathingly funny, always eloquent writing did just that, and far more. Along with his cohort — including Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Clive James, Christopher Hitchens, and Salman Rushdie — Amis remade English letters in the 1980s. In critically-acclaimed novels like Money, London Fields, The Information, and The Zone of Interest (the basis of the 2023 Academy Award-winning film), he cast a klieg light into every corner of 20th century life — from London’s seedy underbelly to the atrocities of WWII. A writer of the first order and a once-in-a-generation prose stylist, Amis won prizes for novels, literary criticism, journalism as well as his memoir, Experience.
Join us for a gathering of Amis close friends and admirers, themselves some of the most gifted writers of our time for an evening of readings, conversation, candid personal stories and more in celebration of Amis’ life and singular voice.
“A writer equipped with a daunting arsenal of literary gifts: a dazzling, chameleonesque command of language, a willingness to tackle large issues and larger social canvases and an unforgiving, heat-seeking eye for the unwholesome ferment of contemporary life.” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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