![]() ![]() ![]() And he retains a charm perennially described as “boyish” but that strikes me, today, as something more tentative, a state of mild bafflement that seems poised between hopefulness and the ever-present threat of disappointment. He doesn’t snort cocaine in club bathrooms any more, but when he’s in the city, he still goes out “every night”. A night at the Bowery Hotel, where McInerney stayed last week while his air conditioning was being fixed, is $425). (In the early 1980s, the rent on his Bowery apartment was $375 a month. The 61-year-old still lives in Manhattan, in a penthouse a few blocks from one of his first addresses in New York. I t is more than 30 years since Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney’s first and most famous novel was published, and everything and nothing has changed. ![]()
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