Dear Santa, I want a Daddy who will take care of me . . .Sanders doesn't believe he'll actually find a Daddy through a dating app. He's not much to look at, and his life is a mess. A Daddy would never be interested in someone like him. But he's lonely.He hasn't been kissed for three long years.Briggs moved to the small tourist town of Red Canyon, Utah, to get away from his fast-paced life in Chicago. But he also moved away from most of his dating pr...

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules—including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women—were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others.The volume begins with a profile of ...

Vladimir Nabokov • le poker • Jane Austen •la princesse Diana • Donald Trump •le porno • John Travolta • Philip Roth •Maradona • l’hérédité • Saul Bellow •le tennis • John Updike • Orange mécanique •Don DeLillo • Ben Laden • Las VegasQuel est le point commun entre tous ces sujets ? Martin Amis s’en empare brillamment ici pour les célébrer, ou les railler. De tous les grands écrivains d’aujourd’hui, rares sont ceux qui possèdent son talent pour la ...

«Scrivere è un processo fisico molto piú di quanto comunemente si pensi. Molto spesso non fai che obbedire al tuo corpo senza fiatare e senza opporre resistenza», dice Amis a proposito dell'ispirazione. E i saggi, gli articoli di cronaca e di costume, le recensioni e le riflessioni letterarie presenti in questa raccolta non possono che nascere da quello stesso impulso travolgente, da quella stessa «sensazione in fondo alla gola, come il desiderio della prima sigaretta» che anima la scrittu...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but...

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules—including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women—were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others.The volume begins with a profile of ...