dear god should i read this new jay mcinerney novel???

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raves in the nyer and the voice!!!!!!

i like him when i was a kid, reviewed 'story of my life' for the school paper (RAVED). well?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

i just saw him judging an episode of iron chef america!

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

what's really odd is i heard avalon playing in a bar earlier THIS VERY NIGHT.

SPOOKY.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

michiko says...eh, maybe

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

I heard him on Fresh Air talking about the new book last week. Maybe he's just one of those writers who can't talk, but he came off kind of awful in the interview, I thought. At one point, Terry Gross asked him how he responds to criticism about his exclusive focus on the lives of the wealthy. There are so many potential smart answers to that question, but he just had nothing. He said something about how the people he writes about are the "pinnacle of civilization." And he seemed really self-important. At one point, Terry Gross read from one of his books, and he commented, "Yeah, I must admit, I really worked hard on that passage." Like, you're a professional writer, no shit.

But I've never read any of his books, so maybe he's brilliant on the page.

― horsehoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure there was lots of irony in the "pinnacle" remark.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 06:52 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

dear god this man has a THIRD collection of wine writing coming out!

― balls, Saturday, 5 May 2012 17:47 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

bright lights v good

― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Friday, 23 November 2012 05:58 (thirteen years ago)

hate less than zero btw

― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Friday, 23 November 2012 05:58 (thirteen years ago)

brightness falls i remember as a really great book. savages, otoh was terrible and it turned me off reading more later stuff -- maybe a mistake?

― s.clover, Friday, 23 November 2012 06:45 (thirteen years ago)

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