An Evening with Martin Amis

With Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, et al.

Every now and then I’m reminded that part of the function of this letter is to announce my public appearances. When my remembering coincides with an actual public appearance, it’s a great day.

This coming Monday evening, I have the happy task of helping to commemorate Martin Amis, the late, great British novelist, onstage in New York City, alongside Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Daniel Kehlmann, James Wood, A.M. Homes, and Aatish Taseer. It happens at 7 p.m., at the venerable 92nd Street Y, on upper Lexington Avenue. Tickets can be got for the price of a New York sandwich.

Public Appearances Dept.

I am told we will be reading. I am told we will be offering memories and thoughts. This all being in service of Amis, a novelist of both singular seriousness and extreme irreverence, the evening has a good chance of being mildly riotous and probably fun. Don’t come for me—obviously, don’t come for me—but do come if you like. It promises to be a night, as the flap copy on my 1989 hardback of London Fields put it, “to be savored and pondered by everyone who loves fiction.” A link:

https://www.92ny.org/event/a-celebration-of-martin-amis

See you,
Nathan