"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.... All might come clear if you could just slip into...

Jay McInerney's works document the urban world of New York and provide a peek into the glitzy, sometimes overly consumerist existence about which average Americans know little. Although he is often categorized with other chroniclers of the New York scene...

Cinematographic art has always captured the spectator's admiration. Most of the individuals who regularly attend an implicit appointment with the seventh art choose one or several filmic productions with which they can identify. These individuals, fascinated by the movies, see a portion of their...

BACK IN 1984, Jay McInerney and his editors ought to have passed round the cigars, for they had given birth to an extremely profitable literary genre, McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, it turned out, was the first of a new variety of contemporary novel,...

Lawyers in Phil Spector's murder trial clashed over whether jurors should hear about a diary of the woman found dead in his mansion, writings the defense says refer to a fascination with guns and visions of a dead actress.In a hearing outside the jury's presence,...

Los Angeles Times two managing editors, Douglas Frantz and Leo C. Wolinsky, will stay behind when new editor Jim O'Shea takes over on Monday. After the jump are two staff memos, sent out a couple hours after Dean Baquet announced to the newsroom--while standing...

In the following essay, de Caro examines the cultural context and significance of contemporary urban folklore in Story of My Life, particularly as revealed in formal and informal communication among the novel's characters.

Below, Wolcott offers unfavorable review of Story of My Life.

In the following review, O'Rourke offers a favorable assessment of Story of My Life.