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John Barrett "Jay" McInerney, Jr. (; born January 13, 1955) is an American writer and food critic.〔(A slideshow of the best dressed authors, Vanity Fair )〕 His novels include ''Bright Lights, Big City'', ''Ransom'', ''Story of My Life'', ''Brightness Falls'', and ''The Last of the Savages''. He edited ''The Penguin Book of New American Voices'', wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of ''Bright Lights, Big City'', and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film ''Gia'', which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for ''House & Garden'' magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in ''Bacchus & Me'' (2000) and ''A Hedonist in the Cellar'' (2006). His most recent novel is titled ''The Good Life'', published in 2006, and since April 2010 he has been a wine columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal''. In 2009, he published a book of short stories which spanned his entire career, entitled ''How It Ended'', which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of ''The New York Times''. ==Life and work== McInerney was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955 and graduated from Williams College in 1976. At Syracuse University, he earned a Master of Arts in English and studied Writing with Raymond Carver. After working as a fact-checker at ''The New Yorker'', he achieved fame with his first published novel, ''Bright Lights, Big City''. Published in 1984, the novel was unique at the time for its depiction of cocaine culture in second-person narrative. The title is taken from a 1961 blues song by Jimmy Reed. The novel established McInerney's reputation as part of a new generation of writers. Labelled the 'literary brat pack' in a 1987 article in the ''Village Voice'', McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz were presented as the new face of literature: young, iconoclastic and fresh.〔In the September/October 2005 issue of ''Pages'' magazine, the "literary brat pack" was identified retrospectively as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, and McInerney. Other associated authors included Donna Tartt, Susan Minot, Peter Farrelly, Mark Lindquist, Peter J. Smith, and Mary Robison.〕 Five novels followed in rapid succession: ''Ransom'', ''Story of My Life'', ''Brightness Falls'', ''The Last of the Savages'' and ''Model Behavior''. After the success of ''Bright Lights, Big City'', publishers started looking for similar works about young people in urban settings. Ellis's ''Less Than Zero'', published in 1985, was promoted as following McInerney's example. McInerney, Ellis and Janowitz were based in New York City and their lives there were regular literary themes, chronicled by New York media. Ellis used McInerney's character, Alison Poole (''Story of My Life''), in his novels ''American Psycho'' and ''Glamorama''. McInerney revealed that the character of Alison Poole is based upon his former girlfriend, Rielle Hunter, then known as Lisa Druck. He described the character as "cocaine addled," and "sexually voracious" but also treated her with some sympathy. McInerney's roman à clef opened a prescient glimpse into the notorious horse murders scandal, which did not become known to the public until 1992, when ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine published a confession from the man who had murdered Lisa Druck's horse at her father's behest, in order to claim the insurance on its life. McInerney also has a cameo role in Ellis's ''Lunar Park'', attending the Halloween party Bret hosts at his house. It was later revealed that McInerney was not pleased with his representation in the novel. Throughout his career McInerney has struggled against the strong, almost indelible, image of himself as both the author and protagonist of ''Bright Lights, Big City.'' He appeared at Williams College as the Commencement speaker for the Class of 2010. His novel, ''The Good Life'', sold only 15,000 copies, much fewer than anticipated.〔Written By Roger Friedman. Published March 28, 2006 FoxNews.com (Jacko: New Authorized Book in Three Weeks? )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay McInerney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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