Jay McInerney’s characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her married boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a family celebrating the holidays while mired in loss year after year, a couple whose experiments in sexuality cross every line imaginable, an actor visiting his wife in rehab, a doctor treating a variety of convicts and his own criminal past, and a young socialite who is called home to nurse her mother, as well as Russell and Corinne Calloway, who featured in Jay’s novels Brightness Falls and The Good Life.

JAY MCINERNEY is the author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine. He is a regular contributor to New York magazine, Guardian Weekly (London), and Corriere della Sera. He lives in New York.