Martin Amis really does live in Brooklyn
Eagle interview with the author of ‘The Rub of Time: Bellows, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017’
Martin Amis has written 16 novels and, with the recent publication of his essay collection “The Rub of Time,” eight works of nonfiction. To say his output is prodigious is an understatement. The photograph on the cover of “The Rub of Time” depicts a scowling, narrow-eyed young man. That fact, plus his evident erudition and his preeminent reputation, had me a bit intimidated.
But the Amis (who arrives for our interview with a satchel overflowing with books, magazines and newspapers) is low key, charming and fully accessible. He has the air of an English don, who’s somehow wandered absent-mindedly into this noisy, popular Italian restaurant on Atlantic Avenue. But it turns out that this restaurant is his “local” and he’s far from absent about any of the myriad of topics we cover.
I begin by asking what prompted his move from Manhattan to Brooklyn
Martin Amis: Basically just to get a bigger place for less money. It was my wife’s idea.