It's All About You!
Dana Vachon is a writer living in Manhattan.
You're still reading Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City 25 years later, says Dana Vachon, because you're just as self-absorbed as the culture it predicted.
McInerney on Short Stories vs the Novel
The New York Times interviews author Jay McInerney, who while notable for his 1984 novel "Bright Lights, Big City," has also dabbled in short fiction. You can find the collection in his new book "...
Year of the Short Story
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Mary Gaitskill's powerful new collection Don't Cry continues 2009's impressive run of great short fiction-with even more to come from Jay McInerney, Alice Munro, and Tolstoy. By Taylor Antrim
On the Line by Eric Ripert and Christine Muhlke is a behind-the-scenes tour of one of America's greatest restaurants in which chef Eric Ripert shares the credit with his team. It takes a village to produce the perfect spicy langoustine s...
Jay McInerney is the author of seven novels, including Bright Lights Big, City, Brightness Falls, and The Good Life. McInerney won the 2006 James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing. His novel The Good Life received the Grand Prix Literaire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007.
Karan Mahajan's Family Planning is one of the best and funniest first novels I've read in years. It hooks you with the first line: "Obviously, Mr. Ahuja-Minister of Urban Development-couldn't tell his son that he was only attracted to Mr...
Jay McInerney is the author of seven novels, including Bright Lights Big, City, Brightness Falls, and The Good Life. McInerney won the 2006 James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing. His novel The Good Life received the Grand Prix Literaire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007.
Swing State Style
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
The American heartland is influencing more than politics this season as sturdy, no-frills fashions hit the blues states.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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