Jay McInerney
Birth date: January 13, 1955
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McInerney is one of my favorite authors, and 'Brightness Falls' my favorite book from him, so I was delighted to find out another book featuring Russell and Corinne Calloway had come out. I'm happy to say his prose style remains top-notch, but the more I reflect on the novel, the more the shine wear...
“It seems to be your duty to go through the motions. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindles...
Recently I tried a book given to me by a friend that didn't click for me. My friend said, I guess this was your Bright Lights, Big City--a book I recommended to her. Humor is a funny, very individual thing, and this is one of my favorite books, while my friend hated it and abandoned it mid-read. It ...
Probably not wildly overrated (which is where I shelved it) but very much of its time. The second person conceit gets very wearing and there's more than a hint of autobiography about it, which ended up making me feel very impatient with both the author and his nameless protagonist as the latter brin...
A perfect sibling (sister) novel to Bright Lights Big City. It's funny, smart, fast, drug-fueled, introspective, somber, depressing, and ultimately the perfect sort of escapism for somebody like me. The people are terrible, the drugs are plentiful, the sex is always good (but could be better) and ...
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