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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“Some writers have no ear for the music.” I interviewed Ian McEwan for the @irishtimes.com about his new novel, about whether “early school leavers make bad decisions” … and what he didn’t like about his friend Martin Amis’s writing. In print now, online soon.

Extract from the first paragraphs of my interview with McEwan. Heading is “There’s a sense that we’re somewhat out of control.”

Photo of McEwan and a few other paragraphs from later in the interview.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

‘“I think Saul Bellow was not a good influence on Martin. Bellow’s prose was a specifically American idiom, and that didn’t sit well on top of an educated English literary voice.” But what about Money? I ask him.’ I interviewed Ian McEwan about Amis, Barnes, Nabokov, Trump and his new novel:

irishtimes.com

Ian McEwan: ‘I’ve been following politics for years, and I’ve never felt such anxiety about the chaos, the lack of leadership’

The writer on his futuristic novel What We Can Know, climate change and the alarming lack of self-scepticism in Trump and Putin

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