Kingsley Amis was a prominent British novelist, poet, critic, and satirist best known for his debut novel, Lucky Jim, a seminal work of postwar comic fiction that helped define the so-called "Angry ...
The Times-Dispatch joins The American Conservative magazine in celebrating the republication of "Lucky Jim" and "The Old Devils" by Kingsley Amis. The book publishing arm of The New York Review of ...
Wales Online: Swansea to honour Lucky Jim author Kingsley Amis with a blue plaque
Swansea to honour Lucky Jim author Kingsley Amis with a blue plaque
In mid-April my local Borders didn’t stock a single book by Kingsley Amis. My branch library could offer me Lucky Jim and a copy of The Folks Who Live on the Hill (1990), the latter looking as if it ...
In the 1980s, Lucky Jim could be found in any bookstore — but virtually nothing else by Amis. It took me several weeks to turn up a used copy of his uneven but still entertaining second novel, That ...
Washington Examiner: Lucky Jim at 70 and the long decline of the university
This illuminating biography by a professor of English at the University of Ulster plumbs the interrelationship of life and art—an idea Bradford's subject, the late Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), would ...
The American Conservative: The Old Devil and the Whole Man: Kingsley Amis at 100
The Times of India: 10 classic books by authors known for their exceptional humour: From Oscar Wilde to Kingsley Amis
10 classic books by authors known for their exceptional humour: From Oscar Wilde to Kingsley Amis