Novelist Jay McInerney here with a message about his brand new novel 📚See You on the Other Side 📚, and where
@jackaldane.bsky.social and he will be meeting this spring 🌸🗽
🎧 NEXT MONTH... @jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 for an evening with The Battle Book Club.
15TH APRIL, 7PM UK TIME
Book Yourself A Place in the Conversation📝 🔗 t.co/Tzvz3Q0cMe
🎧 LISTEN UP!
@jackaldane.bsky.social and the Academy of Ideas will be discussing David Szalay’s 📚Flesh📚 in a co-hosted Battle Book Club livestream on 15th April, 7pm UK Time
Come take part! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-boo...
@johnyorkestory.bsky.social has a top-notch book rec, and literary dream date to share with you all...
Well, look what just arrived.
☀️THIS SPRING, @jackaldane.bsky.social launches The Lit Path, a podcast about novels that have changed men's lives.
Because:
📚Boys & men need better stories
📚Women read far more fiction than men
📚Life is about more than atomic habits
We ask: What happens when men take novels seriously?
With statesmanlike calm, @georgemonaghan.bsky.social delivers a message of reassurance to listeners, alongside his colleague @nickpaulharris.bsky.social, about an ep that will see @jackaldane.bsky.social and the duo discuss 📚Experience📚, The Amis Papers at the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, & more.
@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about the drift away from weighty political speech in favour of short-form soundbites within the UK House of Commons, and why we desperately need a reversal of the trend.
FULL EPISODE: t.co/turNhhiV83
This is Fig & Walnut in Bloomsbury, where @jackaldane.bsky.social met @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss Trip to the Moon 🌑
A perfect match of guest and subject... Every time this podcast returns to a novel it has already covered, it makes me want to re-read it yet again! (The scene with Richard and his son is one of the many Amis that sentences/phrases that has stayed with me.)
🔊 OUT NOW!
"Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable."
David Szalay and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss:
✒️The first Amis novel David ever read
✒️The lessons for all writers in The Information
✒️Why Amis was right about style
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTrz...
🚨 OUT TOMORROW!
David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about Martin Amis’s 🎾📚The Information📚🎾
⏰SET YOUR ALARMS! #martinamis
🚨 OUT THIS WEEK!
On Thurs 12 Feb, Booker Prize winning novelist David Szalay speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about why Martin Amis’s 📚 The Information 📚 is the bittersweet medicine every writer should take, whether they are fighting their way up, or draped in the afterglow of a literary triumph.
Thank you to @johnyorkestory.bsky.social for a great recording this week at The Fig and Walnut in Bloomsbury.
📚Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power of Storytelling📚 is OUT NOW.
Next up, @jackaldane.bsky.social meets the script wizard @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
It's a thing among a generation of males Tories.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
This is Zeret Kitchen, the Ethiopian based in Camberwell where @lucasoakeley.bsky.social met @jackaldane.bsky.social to kick the year off. Don't sleep on it.
FULL EPISODE🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...
I can’t wait for you all to enjoy this one @mymartinamis.bsky.social
🚨COMING SOON in FEB...
@jackaldane.bsky.social speaks to the 2025 Booker Prize winner David Szalay, about Amis's 1995 novel 📚The Information📚, how it helped sober him after the heady triumph of Flesh, why men treat tennis as a modern duel of honour 🎾, + more!
🔗 www.youtube.com/@mymartinami...
The statement "only a liar or a fool would contest the quality" of his writing, is one I can co-sign 100%!
🎯 Listen to the Darts! Darts! Darts! with Rob Doyle this Sunday.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXdU...
I often feel that we don’t talk enough about Mart anymore, so thank God for this magnificent series. Never, ever, stop.
A breed of writer you don’t see many of these days came to London from New York this week: journalist, essayist AND novelist, Ross Barkan.
Ross and @jackaldane.bsky.social will meet again in New York this around the publication of his upcoming new work of fiction ‘Colossus’.
Stay tuned.
IN FEBRUARY...
@johnyorkestory.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about his new book📚Trip to the Moon📚: Understanding the True Power Of Story.
"A masterpiece . . . genius - funny and wise and occasionally profound - Billy Ivory
"You'll learn something new on every page." - Helen Lewis
🔊 OUT THIS FRIDAY...
Irish novelist Rob Doyle describes how reading London Fields began an "electrical storm" in his brain while on a long bus journey in South East Asia aged 23.
From that point on, #martinamis would be a major influence on his work. @jackaldane.bsky.social
@lucasoakeley.bsky.social and I discuss the mission to get boys and men to read fiction in this year's first episode of @bookingclubpod.bsky.social
Full episode out now on all platforms and YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxS...
🔊 FIRST EPISODE of 2026 is here!
Listen to @lucasoakeley.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the male reading crisis, the beauty of Ethiopian dining, his perfect literary dinner date, and more.
🔗 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/2FEa...
Submerged in the fastidious industry of Wes Anderson today at @designmuseum.bsky.social
