It was a pleasure to spend the past few weeks with short stories from Jay McInerney. How It Ended: New and Collected Stories is a diverse collection and showed me a side of McInerney’s writing I haven’t seen before. The McInerney I’ve been exposed to has always taken place in New York City among a [...]
15Apr09
Jay McInerney at Barnes & Noble
It’s appropriate that Jay McInerney made a stop at the Barnes & Nobel in Tribeca to read from his new book, How It Ended: New and Collected Stories. Many of his stories and novels, including his breakthrough Bright Lights, Big City, are set in and around this part of lower Manhattan. I was excited when [...]
“You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.” That’s the line that kicks off Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City, his 1984 debut novel. I first read BLBC in 1986 as part of my freshmen American Literature course at the University of [...]
