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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Why did Dickens say he "purposely dwelt on the romantic side of familiar things" in Bleak House? @philiphensher.bsky.social, author of new book📚 The History of the Novel of Britain📚 (out this week) speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social on Ep# 3 🔗👇

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Wendell Berry in a throwback episode from 2020 in which @jackaldane.bsky.social reads from The Mad Farmer poems with guest Patrick Deneen #wendellberry

My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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The Second Annual My #MartinAmis LIVE podcast show will be available to discover and re-live this autumn 🍂

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🚨 OUT NOW! @philiphensher.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss how to (and how not to) recommend novels to men, why Dickens helps you see through the priggish and pretentious, and more! 🔗 👇

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🔊OUT TOMORROW! @philiphensher.bsky.social & @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the power of Charles Dickens to describe, deride and diagnose the ills of his era, and how that power can still be felt today. EP#3 of The Lit Path explores how Bleak House changed Philip's life as a reader. Don't miss it!

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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🔈 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social with @jackaldane.bsky.social discussing the End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society. 🔗 youtu.be/r5tMVAif1dM?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social meets @jackaldane.bsky.social in a 🧊 cool 🧊 spot to talk about his forthcoming book 📚 The New Dark Ages 📚 Questions for discussion include: Are smart devices turning us into the Eloi from HG Wells’s The Time Machine? 🔗 youtu.be/r5tMVAif1dM?...

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎙️GOING LIVE on Tuesday 25th August! @jackaldane.bsky.social hosts a special episode of My #MartinAmis, inviting 3 former guests onto the stage couch 🛋️ to discuss the potential for Amisian style and criticism to endure throughout the 21st Century. BOOK NOW! 🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🚨 Next up, it’s @philiphensher.bsky.social talking to @jackaldane.bsky.social about why men should read Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. Stay tuned for this later in August 🌞

Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 02/08/2026

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Join host Jack Aldane and author Gavin Keulks for the launch of 'The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis'. The discussion will cover the book's genre, style, and structure, as well as the politics and public memory associated with it.📗 Book your tickets now 🎫🔗 cup.org/4w34mIS

A book cover features a person in front of a dark background. Text reads "The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis" edited by Gavin Keulks. Below, event details list: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026, 3:00 PM, Birkbeck University.

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🗓️So much to look forward to on Tuesday 25th August. The launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, a keynote speech from Will Self, a live recording, and more! BOOK NOW! 🎟️🎟️TICKETS BELOW! 🎟️🎟️ 🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stopped reading again? Well, at least you’ve scrolled to the right place. New episode with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social at Larry’s in the National Gallery out soon!

The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social on what it feels like to discover your political voice through character in a novel. Ep#2🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?si=TkU...

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New episode with @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social out now. 🔗 t.co/y4wcWrZfCQ 🔗 t.co/XmDyzU70au

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Throwback to March this year when @jackaldane.bsky.social met Ross Barkan in the TriBeCa neighbourhood of New York City to discuss Ross’s new novel 📚 Colossus 📚 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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🚨COMING SOON! @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet at James's favourite lunch spot for a thorough discussion about his forthcoming book📚THE NEW DARK AGES📚 Discover what societies really lose when the written word cedes cultural power to image and histrionics. DO NOT MISS!

The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss men, reading and fiction on Ep #2 of The Lit Path, out later this week.

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🚨OUT SOON! Following Ep.1 with the brilliant @johnyorkestory.bsky.social, @jackaldane.bsky.social sits down with the writer @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social to discuss Anne Carson's 1998 verse novel 📚Autobiography of Red📚, a work based on a fragmentary poem by the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus.

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🔊NEW EPISODE UP NOW! Debit novelist Leon Craig tells @jackaldane.bsky.social why finally it is time to discuss Amis’s 2010 novel 📚The Pregnant Widow📚, a complex blend of comedy of manners that examines the language and practices of the sexual revolution. 📷 Corinne Biglietti LISTEN NOW 🔗 below ⬇️

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📢ANNOUNCEMENT Will Self will deliver the keynote speech for My Martin Amis LIVE on 🗓️Tues 25 Aug🗓️, where we launch The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, and bring you a live podcast with @jackaldane.bsky.social 🎟️EARLYBIRD tickets until 1 July 11:59PM🎟️ BOOK NOW🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🎧 EPISODE 1 IS UP! @jackaldane.bsky.social first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer + author @johnyorkestory.bsky.social They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler. 📺 🔗 in replies.

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🚨EPISODE #1 DROPS THIS FRIDAY! @jackaldane.bsky.social is joined at the beginning of The Lit Path by storytelling sage @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss 📚GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 📚, the novel that redefined the point of reading for John, and which remains his greatest literary adventure to this day.

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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🔊 NEW EPISODE! Kathleen Stock and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss The Case Against Assisted Death: where the UK Bill stands, what assisted dying policy looks like in practice around the world, and whether pain and suffering are worth more than we realise. 🔗 youtu.be/lKGZVCGq-RQ?...

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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🚨UP NOW! On 23rd April last month, Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records before a packed venue to discuss📚The Quantity Theory of Morality📚 Nothing was held back, and now, it's all there to listen to, relive and download.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Kathleen Stock has been discussing friction-maxxing on Times Radio this morning, and the subject finds its way into the next episode of The Booking Club, when she and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet for dinner to discuss 📚Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death📚 More soon!

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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A mere morsel next to what was served up live in April when the author of 📚 The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records. Listen to the full version from tomorrow morning.

My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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🔊UP NEXT this summer ☀️ Novelist Leon Craig starts a long-awaited conversation about #MartinAmis's 2010 novel 📚The Pregnant Widow📚. She and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the story's anxieties around the fallout of the sexual revolution, the Cold War, male insecurities around height, and more.

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

More reasons, with Emmanuel Macron 👇

The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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More reasons, with Paul McCartney 👇 @jackaldane.bsky.social

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

More reasons this week with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. @jackaldane.bsky.social Subscribe to our SUBSTACK: thelitpath.substack.com

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Ahead of the first episode of the series, @jackaldane.bsky.social remembers a friend he lost to suicide 10 years ago today. open.substack.com/pub/thelitpa...

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On Male Suicide

Remembering the friend I lost 10 years ago today.

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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🚨 LISTEN NOW to the novelist Megan Nolan discussing her work as a writer and reader in the age of splintered attention with @jackaldane.bsky.social at her favourite restaurant Le Paddock in Brooklyn, New York. 🔗 youtu.be/-GfHqkTWmS8?...

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In a reversal of time's arrow, the next episode is available to listen to ahead of schedule! @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Irish novelist Kevin Power discuss Amis's 1991 Booker-shortlisted novel, and how meeting Amis made him take up smoking again. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFp...

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My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

OUT ON FRIDAY 8 MAY! Irish novelist Kevin Power and @jackaldane.bsky.social sit down to talk about Amis's 1991 novel 📚Time's Arrow📚 NOT LONG NOW... 🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🎧 LISTEN NOW to a brand new episode with Ross Barkan speaking to @jackaldane.bsky.social at Edward’s in downtown Manhattan about his new novel, 📚 COLOSSUS 📚 Discover how the art of self-reinvention has made and unmade America over a century. 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

LISTEN SOON to a sparkling new episode lifted from our live podcast at Special Rider in Shepherd’s Bush, in which Will Self took the stage with @jackaldane.bsky.social to discuss 📚 The Quantity Theory of Morality 📚. We were packed to the rafters, thanks to our collaborator and attendees.

The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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If you didn’t make it to Special Rider last night to hear Will Self and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss The Quantity Theory of Morality, you’ll soon be able to listen to it, in full, in May! Thank you to all, including our delightful sell-out crowd, who showed up in spite of the Tube Strike!

My Martin Amis podcast @mymartinamis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

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⏳It's almost time... A new episode in which @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the Irish writer Kevin Power will be dropping very, very soon. Together, they dive into TIME'S ARROW (1991).