![]() My first wife who was a model left me, my mother died of cancer, and I was fired from The New Yorker. I started with this second person voice that was really self-conscious and with a character who was at a catastrophic moment in his life who is extremely vulnerable and whose thoughts the reader has access to directly.Ī lot of things in book that were fictional but there were three autobiographical facts that dictated the tone. When I got home at 4.30, 5am I wrote those lines down and discovered them some months later and thought this is a really interesting voice. Years ago I was in a nightclub and looked in a mirror and said to myself, you’re not the kind of guy who would be in a place like this at this time in the morning. He talks about cocaine, fame, wine and his first novel, Bright Lights Big City, which remains his guiding light. Interviewing him in his Greenwich Village penthouse, McInerney is impeccably mannered, prone to self-deprecation and humour, both at himself and the outside world. Or the friends he keeps – the high society of the Hamptons – and the friends he sees less often, Bret Easton Ellis, once his celebrated bratpack mate. ![]() Or his love of wine, for all its subtlety and panache, and (former) love of that most unsubtle drug of all, cocaine. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |