Honestly this photo is not a set-up. It was provided by the benevolent David Meyer at the New School in New York, who got his entire class to read Sartre vs Camus. Reminds me of the time I came across a guy reading one of my books on the tube. Staggering.
Read more »Recent article in the New York Times http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/is-this-title-ok SEPTEMBER 1, 2012, 2:16 PM Is This Title O.K.? By ANDY MARTIN Beginning – check. Middle – check. End – check. But, hold on a sec, isn’t there something missing? Something rather vital? In fact, couldn’t it be the key to your book’s selling or not? Ah, …
Read more »Andy Martin recalls how a stolen book changed his life It was a small family bookshop, on a peaceful back street in a small town on the fringes of London. I treated it as my own personal library, and I would sit there for hours on end, often on the floor, usually not buying anything. …
Read more »THE SCOTSMAN By Stuart Kelly Published on Sunday 3 June 2012 00:00 The Boxer And The Goalkeeper: Sartre Vs Camus Andy Martin Simon & Schuster, £14.99 THIS coming November, Penguin are publishing a new translation of The Outsider, the most famous book by Albert Camus, describing it as “the classic existentialist novel”. It was …
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Read more »Andy Martin – The Times, April 9 2012 Forget Devon and Cornwall, according to new research British surfing originated in Yorkshire — thanks to two bored Hawaiian princes and their game English tutor. Andy Martin charts their remarkable story He might as well be flying a broomstick. In the VisitEngland national marketing campaign, a wetsuited …
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/surfing-in-new-york-2361229.html Once Upon a Time in New York from Moving Content on Vimeo. My first experiment with a new content format has been taken up by The Independent Newspaper. The idea is to use video to echo the glory days of magazine photo-reportage to compliment the thoughts of a writer. I teamed up with cult …
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