Jay McInerney
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Born | John Barrett McInerney Jr. January 13, 1955 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Education | Williams College Syracuse University (MA) |
Occupation | Writer |
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Children | 2 |
Website | https://jaymcinerney.com/ |
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. (
Early life and education
McInerney was born in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Marilyn Jean (Murphy) and John Barrett McInerney Sr., a corporate executive.[3] He graduated from Williams College in 1976. At Syracuse University, he earned a Master of Arts in English and studied writing with Raymond Carver.
Career
After working as a fact-checker at
After the success of Bright Lights, Big City, publishers started looking for similar works about young people in urban settings. Ellis's Less than Zero, published in 1985, was promoted as following McInerney's example. McInerney, Ellis and Janowitz were based in New York City and their lives there were regular literary themes chronicled by New York media.
Ellis used McInerney's character, Alison Poole (Story of My Life), in his novels
McInerney also has a cameo role in Ellis's Lunar Park, attending the Halloween party Bret hosts at his house. It was later revealed that McInerney was not pleased with his representation in the novel.[6]
Throughout his career, McInerney has struggled against the image of himself as both the author and protagonist of Bright Lights, Big City. In 2009, McInerney said in an interview, "Obviously, I'm no longer a 25-year-old bon vivant, but [that] gave me what I always wanted: the opportunity to be a full-time writer. It hasn't been entirely fair to my other books, and I've had to deal with a lot of idiocy on the part of the critics and the cultural commentators."[7] He appeared at Williams College as the Commencement speaker for the Class of 2010.
Personal life
His first wife was fashion model Linda Rossiter. His second wife was writer Merry Reymond. For four years he lived with fashion model Marla Hanson.[8] His third marriage, to Helen Bransford, lasted nine years, and the couple had
Bibliography
Novels
- Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
- Ransom (1985)
- Story of My Life (1988)
- The Last of the Savages (1997)
- Model Behavior (1998)
- The Calloway trilogy
- Brightness Falls (1992)
- The Good Life (2006)
- Bright, Precious Days (2016)
Short fiction
- Collections
- McInerney, Jay (2009). How it ended : new and collected stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307268051.
- — (2009). The Last Bachelor. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0747599845.
- Stories[b]
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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"The Queen and I" | 1996 | McInerney, Jay (1996). The Queen and I. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-2895-0 .
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McInerney, Jay (2009). How it ended : new and collected stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307268051 .
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Con doctor | McInerney, Jay (2009). How it ended : new and collected stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307268051 .
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"Everything is lost" | 2009 | McInerney, Jay (January 4, 2009). "Everything is lost". Sunday Times. London. | |
"In the North-West Frontier Province" | McInerney, Jay (2009). How it ended : new and collected stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307268051 .
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"Invisible fences" | |||
"The Madonna of turkey season" | |||
"My public service" | |||
"Smoke" |
Nonfiction
- Bacchus and Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar (2000)
- A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine (2006)
- The Juice: Vinous Veritas (2012)
Critical studies and reviews of McInerney's work
- Waldman, Adelle (August 8–15, 2016). "Status update : Jay McInerney's trilogy about the perils of privilege". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 24. pp. 72–74.[c]
Film
- McInerney wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City. Directed by James Bridges, it stars Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, and Phoebe Cates.
Television
- Gossip Girl as the fictional novelist Jeramiah Harris, mentor to aspiring writer Dan Humphrey
- Hotel Room, television series for HBO, created by David Lynch; McInerney wrote the second episode "Getting Rid Of Robert", which was directed by James Signorelli.
- This is not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis, Television Program of The South Bank Show, McInerney participated in a uncredited role in a documentary on writer Bret Easton Ellis for the ITV.[9]
- BBC Sincerely F. Scott Fitzgerald; McInerney presented a documentary on writer F. Scott Fitzgerald for the BBC.[10]
References
- Notes
- ^ In the September/October 2005 issue of Pages magazine, the "literary brat pack" was identified retrospectively as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, and McInerney. Other associated authors included Donna Tartt, Susan Minot, Peter Farrelly, Mark Lindquist, Peter J. Smith, and Mary Robison.
- ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
- ^ Online version is titled "Jay McInerney's middle–aged malaise".
- Citations
- ^ A slideshow of the best dressed authors, Vanity Fair Archived January 31, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Maslin, Janet. "Janet Maslin's Top 10 Books of 2009". New York Times.
- ^ "McInerney, Jay 1955–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
- OCLC 1136298069. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ^ Nack, William, & Munson, Lester, Sports Illustrated (November 16, 1992). "Blood Money: In the rich, clubby world of horsemen, some greedy owners have hired killers to murder their animals for the insurance payoffs". CNN. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Brinbaum, Robert, The Morning News (January 19, 2006). "Birnbaum v. Bret Easton Ellis". Retrieved February 25, 2007.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ EDT, Kurt Soller On 10/14/09 at 8:00 PM (October 14, 2009). "Jay McInerney: 25 Years After 'Bright Lights, Big City'". Newsweek. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Barber, Lynn, The Observer (September 10, 2000) Interview: Jay McInerney "The beautiful and the damned"
- ^ This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (1999) - IMDb, retrieved April 21, 2023
- ^ Karin Ek (July 24, 2015). "Sincerely F Scott Fitzgerald". Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2018 – via YouTube.