A pupil of Raymond Carver and among the most significant representatives of eighties US post-minimalist literature, Jay McInerney’s international claim to fame came in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City, a ruthless portrayal of a hedonist generation void of any values marked by an unprecedented writing style in the second person singular. As well as his other novels, Ransom, 1985, The Story of My Life, 1987, Brightness Falls, 1992, The Last of the Savages, 1996, Model behavior, 1999, McInerney has also written the collection of short stories How it Ended, 2009 and The Last Bachelor, 2009. His latest novel, Bright, Precious Days, completed in 2016 the trilogy begun with Brightness Falls and The Good Life, 2006, describing contemporary New York through the same characters of Corrine and Russell Calloway in a more sober and less experimental narrative style. A wine enthusiast and expert, McInerney is also the author of unique essays on the pleasures of drinking: Bacchus and Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar, 2000, A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine, 2006, The Juice: Vinous Veritas, 2012. He was wine columnist for “The Wall Street Journal” before covering the same job for “Town & Country”.