Editing Martin Amis (section)

===Other work===
Amis released two collections of short stories (''[[Einstein's Monsters]]'' and ''[[Heavy Water and Other Stories|Heavy Water]]'') and five volumes of collected journalism and criticism (''[[The Moronic Inferno]]'', ''[[Visiting Mrs Nabokov]]'', ''[[The War Against Cliché]]'', ''[[The Second Plane]]'' and ''[[The Rub of Time]]'').<ref name="ESF"/> While he was writing ''Money'', he wrote a guide to arcade video games of the 1970s and 1980s, ''[[Invasion of the Space Invaders]]''.<ref name="invaders">{{Cite web |url=http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html |title=The Arcades Project: Martin Amis' Guide to Classic Video Games |last=O'Connell |first=Mark |date=16 February 2012 |access-date=16 February 2012 |publisher=[[The Millions]] |archive-date=17 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217213454/http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lezard |first1=Nicholas |title=Video stars |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/24/computingandthenet |access-date=22 May 2023 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=24 March 2001}}</ref>

Amis regularly appeared on television and radio discussion and debate programmes and contributed book reviews and articles to newspapers. His wife Isabel Fonseca released her debut novel ''Attachment'' in 2009 and two of Amis's children, his son Louis and his daughter Fernanda, have also been published in ''[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]]'' magazine and ''[[The Guardian]]'', respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martinamisweb.com/days.shtml|title=The Martin Amis Web|work=martinamisweb.com|access-date=30 July 2009|archive-date=21 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521050325/https://martinamisweb.com/days.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====University of Manchester====
In February 2007, Amis was appointed as a professor of creative writing at the [[Manchester Centre for New Writing]] at the [[University of Manchester]], where he started in September 2007. He ran postgraduate seminars, and participated in four public events each year, including a two-week summer school.<ref name="Topping200702"/>

Of his position, Amis said: "I may be acerbic in how I write but&nbsp;... I would find it very difficult to say cruel things to [students] in such a vulnerable position. I imagine I'll be surprisingly sweet and gentle with them."<ref name="Topping200702"/> He predicted that the experience might inspire him to write a new book, while adding sardonically: "A campus novel written by an elderly novelist, that's what the world wants."<ref name="Topping200702"/> It was revealed that the salary paid to Amis by the university was £80,000 a year in return for 28 contracted hours.<ref name = "Qureshi">{{cite news|last=Qureshi|first=Yakub|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1033752_3000_an_hour_for_amis |title=£3,000 an hour for Amis|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]| date=25 January 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2247232,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront |title=Amis the £3k-an-hour professor|first=Maev|last=Kennedy|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 January 2008}}</ref> The ''[[Manchester Evening News]]'' broke the story saying that according to his contract Amis was paid £3,000 an hour for 28 contracted hours a year teaching. The claim was echoed in headlines in several national papers.<ref name = "Qureshi"/>

In January 2011, it was announced that Amis would be stepping down from his university position at the end of the current academic year.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jonathan|last=Brown|date=22 January 2011|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/amis-writes-off-star-lecturer-job-2191257.html|title=Amis writes off star lecturer job|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=4 September 2017|archive-date=18 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218055726/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/amis-writes-off-star-lecturer-job-2191257.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Of his time teaching creative writing at the University of Manchester, Amis was quoted as saying, "teaching creative writing at Manchester has been a joy" and that he had "become very fond of my colleagues, especially John McAuliffe and [[Ian McGuire]]".<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12300132|title=Colm Toibin to succeed Martin Amis in university role|work=BBC News|date=27 January 2011|access-date=20 June 2018|archive-date=10 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510142909/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12300132|url-status=live}}</ref> He added that he "loved doing all the reading and the talking; and I very much took to the Mancunians. They are a witty and tolerant contingent".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Amis was succeeded in this position by the Irish writer [[Colm Tóibín]] in September 2011.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

From October 2007 to July 2011, at the University of Manchester's [[Whitworth Hall]] and Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Amis regularly engaged in public discussions with other experts on literature and various topics ([[21st-century literature]], terrorism, religion, [[Philip Larkin]], science, Britishness, suicide, sex, ageing, his 2010 novel ''The Pregnant Widow'', violence, film, the short story, and America).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martinamisweb.com/events.shtml|title=The Martin Amis Web|work=martinamisweb.com|access-date=12 October 2010|archive-date=21 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521050322/https://martinamisweb.com/events.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>