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	Jay McInerney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jay McInerney (born 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American writer.
		McInerney’s career began with the zeitgeist, Bright Lights, Big City the title of which his then-wife Merry McInerney thought up when she was a grad student at Syracuse University (it is also the title of a famous blues song by Jimmy Reed).
		Bret Easton Ellis used McInerney’s character Alison Poole (Story Of My Life), in his novel Glamorama: Victor Ward (a character from Ellis’ novel The Rules of Attraction) is having an affair with Alison in the first part of the book set in NYC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jay_McInerney (555 words)

	SALON: Jay McInerney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		funny thing happened to Jay McInerney, the zeitgeist-flicking author of the hippest and funniest pop novel of the early '80s -- "Bright Lights, Big City" -- on the yellow brick road to literary fame and fortune.
		Maybe it's what McInerney refers to as the "accumulated weight" of all those photos of him out nightclubbing (remember his involuntary participation in Spy magazine's "Iron-Man" nightlife decathlon contest?), looking like a gin-soaked deer caught in the headlights.
		Or maybe it was the overriding glibness of his ensuing novels ("The Story of My Life" was particularly thin) that made critics want to pile on.
	www.salon.com /weekly/mcinerney1960527.html (145 words)

	deseretnews.com \| McInerney discovers 2nd act in new book
		McInerney, now 51, has already outlived his model and reformed his own life of drugs, alcohol, womanizing and frequenting the party scene in New York.
		McInerney is the kind of guy who knows lots of people, many of them famous writers —; and he generously drops their names in "The Good Life." He said he did it because some of his principal characters are in the writing world "and these are the kinds of people they would know.
		McInerney's writing style is patterned after the way people he knows in his "New York world" would talk.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635187255,00.html (894 words)

	Eye - Jay McInerney at IFOA - 10.22.98
		McInerney cohabited with models and wrote two more novels of frantic New Yorkism, Ransom and Story of My Life -- which were critically attacked but ensured the novelist regular appearances in Spy.
		Norman Mailer, McInerney stops to recall, once warned him, "Be careful of those flashbulbs, Jay: they bleach your soul." Maybe it was that -- or finding himself in semi-permanent residence in the Spy candids -- that sent the writer out of New York for a good half-decade.
		Instead, McInerney has realized, like that other chronic Manhattanite, Jim Carroll, that his stay in the bucolic lands is nothing more than a stopover, the addict pausing to clean out his system before the next binge.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.22.98/art/mcinerney22.html (813 words)

	The Trivial Life By Blake Bailey
		McInerney told me of the villainy that had taken place behind the scenes, and then pronounced his anathema: The magazine's editors, he said, "will never be invited to one of my parties." For a moment I thought he was joking, but not at all.
		I agree with McInerney that 9/11 is a worthy subject for a novelist, though I wish he himself would dispense with such gravitas and larger canvases altogether and let someone like Philip Roth handle it (as he inevitably will).
		I agree that Jay McInerney is a better writer than he's been credit, but history will judge his novels as minor efforts at best.
	www.slate.com /id/2136574/?nav=tap3 (1469 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Good Life - Jay McInerney - Hardcover
		Jay McInerney's new novel seems from the outside to be composed of the most disheartening elements: The Good Life is about a group of privileged New Yorkers who are led to reassess their lives-and become in many ways better people-in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
		McInerney brings an amusingly bitchy eye to bear on their lifestyles (for example, a character's double-height living room is described as appearing "to be holding its breath, as if awaiting a crew from Architectural Digest").
		McInerney's pictures of daily life by Ground Zero are unforgettable as we see how the tragedy affected the lives of a group of very different people.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0375411402&userid=Oy0ZeSzCuD&cds2Pid=9481 (2398 words)

	Powell's Books - The Good Life: A Novel by Jay McInerney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Jay McInerney's new novel seems from the outside to be composed of the most disheartening elements: The Good Life is about a group of privileged New Yorkers who are led to reassess their lives — and become in many ways better people — in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
		It is a tribute to McInerney's many talents that he can wrest from his schematic structure a novel that is both tender and entertaining.As often in McInerney's world, we find ourselves among a wealthy and ambitious elite, whom the novelist seems both intensely drawn to and repelled by.
		Jay McInerney is the author of Bright Lights, Big City (which he adapted for the screen), Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, and Model Behavior.
	www.powells.com /biblio?PID=25631&cgi=product&isbn=0375411402 (1100 words)

	PW: Jay McInerney: N.Y. Confidential - 9/14/1998 - Publishers Weekly
		In 1984, McInerney was a 29-year-old lapsed grad student and self-described "literary geek" with one brief, unhappy marriage behind him, a new wife (philosophy student Merry McInerney) and a worshipful friendship with his teacher Raymond Carver.
		McInerney is quick to distinguish his willingness to please reporters from the self-promotion of Tama Janowitz, a writer often described in the 1980s as a member of McInerney's "Brat Pack," who drew criticism for appearing in paid advertisements after the success of her first story collection, Slaves of New York.
		McInerney seemed to be enjoying the role of the Southern gentleman (although he grew up the son of an itinerant paper executive, McInerney says he has "a lot of memories and interest in the South").
	publishersweekly.com /article/CA166067.html?pubdate=9/14/1998&... (1890 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney)
		McInerney's book was upheld as one of the few novels to ever be written in the second-person: it begins, "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.
		McInerney's prose is spare but effective; despite some too-clever moments, his style was a joy to read.
		Fortunately McInerney avoids the overly pat resolution; unfortunately, he still doesn't tie in the mother episode too well, and it sticks out like a short story that was meant to belong somewhere else.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/McInerneyJayBrightLightsBigCity.shtml (945 words)

	LitKicks: Jay McInerney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		by niblo Sep 28, 2002 8:06 PM Jay McInerney was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955.
		Like McInerney, Fitzgerald was a hip young star whose first novel ("This Side of Paradise") was a big smash, and despite the fact that "The Great Gatsby" was among his last novels, Fitzgerald's popularity took a dive and he was widely considered a washed-out party-boy until he died and "Gatsby" was discovered by the critics.
		There is an official Jay McInerney web site which includes a heartfelt, emotional article about his experience of watching the World Trade Center collapse on September 11 - and recalls the fact that the towers had been featured on the cover of the first edition of "Bright Lights".
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=JayMcInerney (797 words)

	Alibris: Jay McInerney
		Jay McInerney's bestselling masterpiece is now a United Artists film starring one of the hottest young actors working today, Michael J. Fox.
		Jay McInerney's third novel, published four years after his wildly successful BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, covers some of the same ground and takes place in the same milieu, but is told entirely from a woman's point of view.
		Here is Jay McInerney's acclaimed first novel, published to coincide with the release of the major motion picture and movie tie-in edition of Bright Lights, Big City.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/McInerney,Jay (737 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Books - Bad Apple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jay McInerney’s first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), further enhanced New York’s mystique, though in a perverse way: by portraying it as a sin capital.
		The contrasts McInerney draws between the mother- and daughter-in-law, and between the country and the city, are very ’80s, coming down to a debate between callow, conspicuous consumption and grounded, noble altruism.
		Once the inspiration for fresh ideas, the city McInerney depicts at the outset of The Good Life has become stale and insular, doing the same party drugs it did in the ’80s, wearing the same designers to the same outrageously expensive charity events, eating in the same restaurants, engaged in the same tired debates.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/books/mcinerney.html (1484 words)

	Bacchus & Me- AlcoholReviews.com Reviews Bacchus & Me by Jay McInerney
		McInerney is to be commended for bringing levity to the subject of wine.
		Constrained by space (his essays appear to top off at 2000 words,) McInerney is often able to tell readers a great deal in a hurry- witness his chapters on Brunello, Loire wines, and his "Ticket to Veneto." This is good wine writing- crisp, informative, and fun.
		McInerney is a bright guy, and he has learned a great deal about wine.
	www.alcoholreviews.com /ALCOHOLTOOLS/bacchus.html (497 words)

	Salon.com Books \| From "Bright Lights, Big City" to gamay Beaujolais
		People my age fall into two camps when it comes to Jay McInerney: They either recall with misty fondness reading "Bright Lights, Big City" one swift afternoon back in the '80s, or they hate his stinkin' guts and wish he would go away forever.
		McInerney is a gifted writer (and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise), but he can seem lazy and self-derivative, as if he's coasting.
		The Boston Globe called it McInerney's "most giving" book, an affectionate verdict for an author who once posed as a Ninja warrior on the cover of Esquire, poised to decapitate his critics, and who was often lumped in with the "cocaine novelists" (as Lev Grossman once put it) of the Reagan years.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/11/20/mcinerney (702 words)

	Amazon.com: Model Behavior: Books: Jay Mcinerney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		McInerney's comic timing is best demonstrated in one of the longest scenes, a Thanksgiving dinner that ends in chaos when Connor's father exposes himself to the turkey-munching patrons of a tony Manhattan eatery.
		McInerney is a very witty writer with a penchant for poking fun at the person you can expect him to be in real life, which makes the reading even more pleasurable.
		McInerney tells you a story of a writer named Connor McKnight, the relationships between his friends and his former girlfriend who leaves him by telling him she's going on a shoot.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679749535?v=glance (1796 words)

	Amazon.com: How It Ended (Bloomsbury Paperbacks): Books: Jay McInerney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jay McInerney is known to write great one liners and there are quite a few in this collection of stories.
		Jay McInerney's mentor was Raymond Carver; the master of the short story, yet the short story is not McInerney's niche.
		McInerney is a master of weaving comedy and human tragedy (a talent that is not achieved by very many).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0747553564?v=glance (947 words)

	The Good Life by Jay McInerney : Booksamillion.com (0375411402, Hardcover)
		Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
		Jay McInerney's The Good Life joins the body of fiction grappling with the events of September 11, 2001, and the various landscapes—literal, personal, political—forever altered by that day.
		McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City) focuses his attention largely on Corinne Calloway and Luke McGavock, two strangers who have an otherworldly encounter in the early hours of September 12, then meet again as volunteers in a impromptu soup kitchen serving the needs of Ground Zero workers.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375411402 (410 words)

	Jay McInerney's 'Brightness Falls' Review by David Louis Edelman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		McInerney's vision of the shallowness of success inspired an entire corpus of yuppie philosophers intent on exposing the dark side of Reagan-era prosperity.
		McInerney has woven several subplots in the background that show that this shallowness is a universal trait.
		McInerney's writing comes directly from the ear and the eye, which gives the book visceral impact without a lot of lengthy cerebral detours.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /reviews/mcinerney.cfm (598 words)

	NPR : Seeking 'The Good Life' in Post-9/11 New York
		McInerney is also the author of the novels Bright Lights, Big City, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages.
		In each of those books, McInerney's stories reflected the zeitgeist of the time, from the heady party days of Manhattan in the 1980s to the clash of idealism and money in America of the 1990s.
		Summer used to be as endless as the ocean when she was a girl and her family rented the gray shingled cottage on Nantucket.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5188990 (2229 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Good Life': Manhattan and the material world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the world of books, Jay McInerney is both bigger and smaller than the reputation he gained from his 1984 phenomenon, Bright Lights, Big City.
		McInerney tosses in a dash of Tom Wolfe, a dollop of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a touch of Edith Whartonas he explores a number of themes.
		He examines the conflict between the demands of children and the desires of the individual, the baggage everyone totes around from childhood, the tension between husbands and wives over money, and the stress of rearing children in that epicenter of materialism, Manhattan.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2006-01-30-good-life_x.htm?csp=34 (576 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Brightness Falls, by Jay McInerney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Both Jay McInerney and his characters seem, in book after book, to be learning the same thing all over again--that the glittering allure of hip parties, fashionable clubs, naughty drugs and, in Brightness Falls, his latest offering, big money, is really only superficial.
		...Tired and glib as is McInerney's satire of ambitious young mergersand-acquisitions specialists, Eurotrash party-hoppers, fashion models, and self-made billionaires on their second wives, his characterizations of them are positively sprightly next to his renderings of supposedly three-dimensional persons...
		...McInerney has been praised as a satirist, but he lacks the satirist's penchant for exposing uncomfortable truths, for striking painfully close to the bone...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V94I3P58-1.htm (751 words)

	Jay McInerney revives from 6-year break with a taste of The Good Life - Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		McInerney describes himself as a writer of New York.
		McInerney is often compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald for his similar early success and its ensuing expectations.
		However, after a six-year break after his last novel, the early success of The Good Life and a new novel in the works, McInerney feels as if he has entered the second phase of his career, one which Fitzgerald was not able to make it to.
	www.thehurricaneonline.com /news/2006/02/17/Edge/Jay-Mcinerney.Revives.From.6Year.Break.With.A.Taste.Of.The.Good.Life-1618130.shtml (463 words)

	Jay McInerney's 'The Good Life' reflects a less cocky, more personal writer
		Still, the Times criticized its "bizarre mix of the genuinely moving and the trashily facile." The 9/11 attacks came during a fallow period for McInerney, who was going through his third divorce and a bout of writer's block, aggravated by the shock of what was happening to his city.
		McInerney's persona emerged after 1984's "Bright Lights, Big City," the best-selling novel that explored the city's disaffected, hedonistic youth and their fondness for Bolivian marching powder.
		Though still in his 20s, McInerney was suddenly feted as literature's newest brash voice.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/260631_book24.html (847 words)

	The Good Life by Jay McInerney \| PopMatters Book Review
		Jay McInerney, an author tied to New York City in the most personal and literary of ways, experienced just such a moment when he stood on a chair, struggling to fix a broken window shade, and glimpsed a flash of red-orange on the north tower of the World Trade Center.
		The Calloway's were first featured in McInerney's magnificent 1992 novel Brightness Falls, and by early fall of 2001, they've survived a separation, but hit upon a period where their marriage is haunted by suspicion and old ghosts.
		McInerney struck a perfect balance between the good and the bad, the determination to serve our fellow man, the anger of victimized New Yorkers, the way some people chose to help and others retreated further into their own selfishness.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/g/good-life-2006.shtml (1523 words)

	USATODAY.com - Disputed memoirist plugs Jay McInerney novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NEW YORK (AP) — Jay McInerney's new novel has a famous, perhaps infamous admirer: James Frey.
		In an exclusive for Amazon.com, author James Frey cited Jay McInerney as an influence.
		After The Smoking Gun alleged numerous fabrications in his million-selling memoir of addiction, including a three-month jail term that apparently never happened, Frey has acknowledged taking "liberties" with his story and is writing an author's note for future editions.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2006-01-23-frey-mcinerney_x.htm (468 words)

	From the ashes - Arts - The Phoenix
		McInerney’s wariness is precisely why The Good Life is so successful.
		Charting that day’s reverberations in the lives and loves of the well-educated, well-heeled New Yorkers who are his stock-in-trade, McInerney masterfully evokes a scarred and damaged city, its citizens grappling with the new lives that might be possible.
		Jay McInerney, of course, has been chronicling New York life for two decades.
	thephoenix.com /article_ektid4740.aspx (726 words)

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