Jay McInerney wrote the decade-defining novel of the 1980s, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), the story of an ambitious young man adrift in New York City’s cocaine-fueled “yuppie” scene.

​7 p.m. Wednesday, January 29​
Conversation/Q&A with WAMC’s Joe Donahue
The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio​
339 Central Ave, Albany NY 12206

Registration required: https://mcinerney.eventbrite.com

Revisiting the novel 25 years later, Sam Tanenhaus said in the New York Times Book Review, "Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded." His other novels include Story of My Life (1988), Brightness Falls (1992), The Good Life (2006), and Bright, Precious Days (2016). A noted wine columnist and author of three books on wine, McInerney has been called “the best wine writer in America” (Salon).

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