Jay McInerney Summary

"You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy... Read more

In the following review, Birkerts offers a favorable assessment of Brightness Falls. "Whom the gods would destroy," Cyril Connolly once wrote, "they first call promising.... Read more

In the following review, Olshan offers tempered praise for Brightness Falls. Nearly everyone and everything in Jay McInerney's ambitious fourth novel, Brightness Falls, is leveraged. Compani... Read more

In the following essay, Faye examines the themes of "cultural disaffection," alienation, and expatriation in Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, and Story of My Life. According to Faye, &#x... Read more

In the following review, Dyer cites shortcomings in The Last of the Savages. According to Dyer, "We are left with the statement of great purpose rather than its achieved substance and form.�... Read more

In the following review, Campbell offers tempered praise for McInerney's effort to address contemporary race relations in The Last of the Savages. In 1962, at the height of the Civil Rights ... Read more

In the following review, Schine offers qualified praise for Brightness Falls. A trash novel tells you everything you already know about a way of life you will, in fact, never know. A serious novel ... Read more