The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
John Crace digests Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
IT'S hard to tell where kitsch stops and hip starts in Manhattan lounges these days, especially when Phil Collins' "Sussudio" begins to play. Sure, one man's nostalgia is another man's new, but who died and made Jay McInerney DJ? With nearly every...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Rent It The Movie: "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning." -- Jay McInerney , Bright Lights, Big City Alfred Hitchcock mused that he preferred making movies adapted from marginal novels instead of top-shelf literature. The latter, he reasoned, had already been defined in a medium that didn't necessarily translate so well to a visual sensibility....
Project Me! (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Despite Gourmet not providing me with any solid alfresco porn this month, they offered up a much more tantalizing bit. It seems that Jay McInerney proposed to his fourth wife (Patty Hearst’s sister) using food a vehicle. My favorite cliché!...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
So far I don't know whether any of my own books were among those that Sarah Palin tried to yank from the shelves of the public library in Wassila, Alaska, when she was mayor of that town, but I like to think, at the very least, that they would have been if she had been aware of their existence or their content.
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Imagine the eyebrows their kids would have! Photo: Getty Images When casting directors for Gossip Girl invited Jay McInerney to guest-star on the show, they couldn't have known the can of worms they were opening. McInerney is married to Anne Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and member of one of the most famous wealthy families in New York. So it was really only...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
“While we haven’t pulled in blockbuster ratings, we have helped create an identity for the network—or rather, an identifying show for the network,” Josh Schwartz, the 32-year-old creator of the CW network show Gossip Girl , told the Transom via phone from his office in Burbank, Calif., the other day. To New Yorkers’ alternate delight and horror, the new season of Mr. Schwartz’s show began on Monday...
Tuned In (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
GIOVANNI RUFINO/THE CW I'm back from vacation, and Gossip Girl has returned with me. I'm not sure what I'm more unsettled by: seeing Chuck as a quasi-sympathetic figure ("Damn that motherChucker!"), or seeing Jay McInerney as an actor. (Me: "Guy...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The CW has released a video of the first few scenes of Gossip Girl's 2nd season premiere. The show, about bitchy, scheming Manhattan rich kids and three impoverished Brooklynites, returns next Monday...
The Frontal Cortex (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The latest Men's Vogue has a rather interesting article (not online) by Jay McInerney on a small group of real estate moguls who like to drink very, very expensive wine. For these oenophiles, a 1982 Romanee-Conti is a young wine - even their champagne is typically several decades old - and a $500 bottle is borderline plonk. It's not uncommon for these winos to consumer $30,000 worth of rotten grape...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Rielle Hunter. Photo: Patrick McMullan Princess Diana once read the dirty parts of Jay McInerney's Rielle Hunter–inspired Story of My Life to guests at a London dinner party. Padma Lakshmi and the Top Chef crew are supposedly filming at Le Bernardin tonight. Wind farm advocate and Giuliani adviser T. Boone Pickens says he warned Rudy not to promise to end the country's dependence on foreign oil, but...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
"The late Diana, Princess of Wales, was a big fan of John Edwards' lover Rielle Hunter... [At] a dinner party she hosted in London, [Diana] had someone read the dirty parts of Jay McInerney's 'Story...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
"The late Diana, Princess of Wales, was a big fan of John Edwards' lover Rielle Hunter... [At] a dinner party she hosted in London, [Hunter] had someone read the dirty parts of Jay McInerney's 'Story...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The life of Rielle Hunter already feels like an elevator pitch for a postmodern genre-mashup of a novel: Bit player in Jay McInerney/Brett Easton Ellis books leaves the printed page, goes New Age , and seduces a presidential candidate. Now we have our opening chapter , part Godfather and part Double Indemnity : Before she was former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' mistress, before she...
Mark Maynard (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
By now you’ve probably all heard that Rielle Hunter, the woman who John Edwards gave up his life for, used to date the author Jay McInerney , right? Back then, her name was Lisa Druck, and, according to McInerney, she was an “an ostensibly jaded, cocaine-addled, sexually voracious 20-year-old.” This was the mid-80’s and she was big on the New York party scene. They only dated for a few months, but...
