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Latest News: Jay McInerney: Wall Street Journal Wine Critic [Wine]
Best Known As: Author Life Facts: McInerney studied writing with Raymond Carver and once worked as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. He achieved fame with his first published novel Bright Lights, Big City. Published in 1984, the novel was unique at the time for its depiction of cocaine culture in second-person narrative. The title is taken from a 1961 blues song by Jimmy Reed. The novel established McInerney?s reputation as part of a new generation of writers. Labelled the ?literary brat pack' ... read more about Jay McInerney
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