{"id":1418,"date":"2024-06-10T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T00:37:24","slug":"he-made-every-sentence-electric-martin-amis-remembered-by-tina-brown-his-old-friend-and-devoted-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/he-made-every-sentence-electric-martin-amis-remembered-by-tina-brown-his-old-friend-and-devoted-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He made every sentence electric\u2019: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Brown, &#8216;The Guardian&#8217; 11th June 2024<\/p>\n<p>He was cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny. Martin\u2019s most seductive appeal was in his voice. Off the page, a rich, iconoclastic croak. On the page, a combination of curated American junkyard and British irony that hit the low notes so hard against the high that sparks flew and made every sentence electric. In a way, it matched his reading habits: if readers of the future want to know how an abiding faith in classic literature could survive, and even thrive, in a world of redtops, porn mags and trash TV, they will surely turn to Martin before anyone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/martin-amis-tina-brown-memorial-service-novelist\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Brown, &#8216;The Guardian&#8217; 11th June 2024 He was cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny. Martin\u2019s most seductive appeal was in his voice. Off the page, a rich, iconoclastic croak. On &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amis-martin","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}