But then Martin Amis has a long history of finding himself at the center of controversy.
The fascination in Britain with Mr. Amis's life and opinions is, however, insatiable and unceasing.
With this volume--part memoir, part history, part meditation--noted novelist Martin Amis examines this important subject.
Mr Leader's is the fourth full-length biography of Amis to appear since his death in 1995.
He draws judiciously on a huge amount of material, both by and about Amis.
The field of Kingsley Amis studies is, if not yet overcrowded, at least getting cosy.
The group included John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, amongst others.
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Mr. Amis says Mr. Hitchens rarely requires his editing these days, except when it comes to punctuation.
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But, if Suzy Amis Cameron wears any Harry Winston jewels, she might not want to recycle them.
Mr. Wylie went on to sell Mr. Amis's novel "The Information" for a cool half a million pounds.
Amis brilliantly combines this memoir with a historical autopsy of Stalin and communism.
But the cultural elitists' aversion in no way diminishes Amis' tour de force.
It was Mr. Amis who taught him not to subordinate style to substance when crafting an argument, Mr. Hitchens says.
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Wodehouse will be read long after Amis (fils et pere) have been forgotten about by all but crit lit studies.
Kingsley Amis wrote in The James Bond Dossier in 1965 that we are not particularly interested in Bond as a character.
At his trattoria Amis, Mr. Vetri put turkey Milanese on the menu after trying an outstanding one near Milan, in Bergamo.
When the British Prime Minister got together with Continental leaders, Mr Amis wondered, was this topic part of "the European conversation"?
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Their hedonistic affair is full of Chablis and long discussions about famous writers and publishers of the time (Martin Amis, Tom Maschler).
But the two languages also have a number of faux amis, friends so false that they will provoke many an embarrassing misunderstanding.
The conference call will discuss a report on agricultural prices requested by France, it was compiled by the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS).
France is currently the president of both the forum and the AMIS system, which is based at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Hitchens and Amis, now both in their 60s, have written about their friendship before (most notably, Mr. Amis addressed it in his 2000 memoir, "Experience").
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But Suzy Amis Cameron, who is married to director James Cameron, will also walk the walk along the red carpet at the Oscars Sunday night.
At Amis, Mr. Vetri coats the cutlets with store-bought breadcrumbs because they are finer than the homemade kind and more consistently sized, making for a uniformly crisp crust.
He proceeds more or less chronologically, following Amis from his suburban London childhood to Oxford, a series of academic posts in Britain and America, and then back to London again.
The key to understanding Christopher Hitchens is that his friends were a kind of aristocracy to him, and his close friends (like the author Martin Amis) were members of the royal family.
Rep. Kucinich tells us the real reasons he bothered the caterer with his dental problems in more detail than anyone has revealed since Martin Amis had his teeth fixed .
Vetri, another local culinary superstar, does not have the long list of eateries that Starr has, but he has found success with his unique twist on Italian dining at Vetri, Osteria and Amis.
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