Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney, Jr.is an American novelist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 January 1955
CityHartford, CT
CountryUnited States of America
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)
Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
There aren't many shy writers left.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.