{"id":1640,"date":"2007-09-01T23:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T04:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2011-04-06T19:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:55:31","slug":"kingsley-amis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Kingsley Amis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1637\">Next Literary Writing<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kingsley Amis<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As recounted in <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=472\">About the Author<\/a>, I did my doctoral dissertation on Kingsley Amis.\u00a0 When Zachary Leader published his biography of Amis in 2007, Mark Lasswell of the <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>tracked me down, and asked me to write a review and to be sure to incorporate\u00a0my personal experiences\u00a0of Amis.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s that review, which in part\u00a0explores that uneasy territory between an interviewer bent on understanding his subject and a subject who wants to be only partly understood.\u00a0 Click here for an image of the piece as published: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/amis-review.pdf\">amis-review<\/a> (you may want to use your browser&#8217;s zoom feature), or here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/amis-review-submitted.pdf\">amis-review-submitted<\/a> for the text as I submitted it before Mr. Lasswell&#8217;s wise emendations &#8212; while noting that this piece is reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal \u00a9 2007 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I hope to add the dissertation itself to this page eventually. For time being, and for the truly obsessed, the bibliography to the dissertation was issued as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kingsley-Amis-Checklist-bibliographies-checklists\/dp\/0873381823\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237339792&amp;sr=1-1\">a separate book by the Kent State University Press<\/a>, which you are welcome to check out on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright (c) Jack L. B. Gohn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1637\">Next Literary Writing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Literary Writing Kingsley Amis \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As recounted in About the Author, I did my doctoral dissertation on Kingsley Amis.\u00a0 When Zachary Leader published his biography of Amis in 2007, Mark Lasswell of the Wall Street Journal tracked me down, and asked me to write a review and to be sure to incorporate\u00a0my personal experiences\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1916,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-writings","category-closeup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}