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This week on Writers and Company, Part Two of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with one of England's hottest and most controversial writers, Martin Amis. In this episode, Amis talks about the family: new daughters, a long-lost daughter, family tragedy, but especially his father, novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. Episode includes part of an interview that Eleanor did with Kingsley Amis in 1992, as well as a recording of Kingsley reading from his Collected Poems: 1944-1979.

Eleanor interviews an author described as the cleverest, most entertaining - and most notorious - English writer of his age, Martin Amis. Amis reads from his books The Information and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, and Other Excursions