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Jay McInerney

December 2016

  • Thandie Newton, Patti Smith, Nicola Adams, Elton John, Lauren Laverne and Woody Allen.

    The G2 interview
    What George Clooney, Lupita Nyong’o, Elton John and Eddie the Eagle taught us in 2016

    George Clooney called Donald Trump a fascist, Lupita Nyong’o took on Hollywood racism, Elton John discussed money and Eddie the Eagle admitted he skied like an ostrich – what we learned in a year of Guardian interviews

November 2016

  • Jay McInerney in New York

    The G2 interview
    Jay McInerney: 'You can only blow up your life so many times before it becomes ridiculous'

    With Bright Lights, Big City, the novelist established himself as the chronicler of New York’s hedonistic 80s elite. Thirty years and four marriages later, he is still fascinated by wealth and Donald Trump – though his friendship with Bret Easton Ellis is flagging ...

September 2016

  • Promotional stickers for novels

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on promotional stickers for novels - cartoon

    When Jay McInerney wrote that he did not ‘ask to be the voice of a generation’ with his iconic novel Bright Lights, Big City, Tom Gauld brainstormed some other taglines to sell a book
  • Jay McInerney

    Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney review – more precious than bright

    The 2008 banking crisis and more extramarital affairs fail to add fresh life to familiar characters in this trilogy about New York’s overprivileged elite
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    Jay McInerney: no one sets out to be the voice of a generation – I certainly didn’t

    Jay McInerney
    The miserable end to an evening’s clubbing led to the first chapter of the era-defining novel Bright Lights, Big City

August 2016

  • Jay McInerney at his home in Manhattan, New York, America - 13 Mar 2009<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dan Callister / Rex Features (940926c) Jay McInerney Jay McInerney at his home in Manhattan, New York, America - 13 Mar 2009

    Jay McInerney: 'It's easy for me to slip into ridiculousness'

    With Bright, Precious Days, the author returns to the moneyed Manhattanites he created in Brightness Falls – now in the era of financial crisis and Obama’s election

July 2016

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    Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney – review

    In this attempt to breathe new life into his old characters, Jay McInerney confirms that his best work is behind him
  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Press freedom threats in the US prompt writers to sign petition

    Roy Greenslade
    With journalists under pressure in countries across the world, it is important for democratic countries to safeguard press freedom in their own backyards
  • Gay Talese

    The week in books
    The Voyeur’s Motel and other unlikely stories

    When is a true story not a true story? Ask Gay Talese, Alex Malarkey or Lewis Wolpert

April 2015

  • John Hillcoat's film version of The Road.

    Books blog
    Has US literature woken from the American dream?

    The national myth of happiness pursued and won has always been contested in fiction – and its promise seems almost extinct in some contemporary novels

August 2014

  • New York skyline

    Reading American cities
    New York in books: readers' picks

    From the glamour of 1950s Manhattan to the decadence of Wall Street today, New York is a literary capital. Last week we offered you a guide to books about New York – and you had a lot more to suggest. Here’s a selection of recommendations. Add your own below the line

November 2013

  • Thanksgiving dinner

    Books blog
    Thanksgiving for fiction's awful celebrations

    John Dugdale: Novelists sweeten the great family occasion by reminding readers just how sour it can be

October 2012

  • Jay McInerney

    The Obama years
    Jay McInerney on Obama: 'We have to give him a second chance'

    He has disappointed but not yet irrevocably betrayed us, says novelist Jay McInerney in his verdict on the presidency

June 2012

  • The Great Gatsby 2012

    Jay McInerney: why Gatsby is so great

    F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, set amid the riotous frivolity of the jazz age, defines the American psyche, says Jay McInerney

May 2012

  • lunch Jay McInerney

    Lunch with...
    Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'

  • Couple toasting with wineglasses in Central Park

    The Juice: Vinous Veritas by Jay McInerney - review

January 2010

  • Jay McInerney

    Weekend food and travel special
    Jay McInerney: New Orleans cuisine is alive and snapping

  • The Last Bachelor by Jay McInerney

July 2009

  • Jay McInerney

    The interview: Jay McInerney

    A quarter of a century and '17 midlife crises' after his debut, the writer meets Rachel Cooke and talks about his many marriages and how the Wall Street crash is at the heart of his next novel

March 2009

  • Jay McInerney

    'Kids are hard to fool'

    Novelist Jay McInerney made his name in the 1980s as a hell-raising philanderer and cocaine fiend. So, how does he teach family values to his two teenage children, asks Britt Collins - and, more importantly, will they listen?

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