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Bookmark or Share- The rise and fall of Sad White Men | John Self | The Critic MagazineThis September sees the centenary of the publication of what might have been the first fully-fledged Sad White Man novel: Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt. Lewis was a rare cross between a genius and a hack, one of America’s great literary chroniclers of its times who was nonetheless capable of turning out shoddy dreck.
- Money (novel) - WikipediaPlot summary. Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of commercials who is invited to New York City by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, to shoot his first film. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob: he is usually drunk, and an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes; he eats too much; above all ...
- Martin Amis, Remembered by Writers | The New YorkerMy impression of the city at the time was to a disproportionate degree informed by “Money,” which opens with its antihero, John Self, getting into an altercation with a cabdriver on the...
- Martin Amis novels – ranked! | Martin Amis | The GuardianMartin Amis novels – ranked! As literature’s oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works. John Self. Sat 24 Aug...
- The 'dangerous' books too powerful to read - BBC21 September 2022. By John Self,Features correspondent. Emmanuel Lafont. Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. To launch a new BBC Culture...
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