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Jay McInerney on Sex, Drugs, and Literary Stardom

Jay McInerney on Sex, Drugs, and Literary Stardom

Episode 92 Published 1 day ago
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-Moynihan's Introduction 

-Cocaine, Basquiat, and the Odeon 

-The Making of Bright Lights, Big City 

-Meeting Raymond Carver 

-Writing, Aging, and Looking Back 

-Becoming a Literary Celebrity 

-Writing in the Aftermath of 9/11 

-Politics, Mamdani, and Angela Davis 

-Cancel Culture and Censorship in Publishing 

-COVID and the Deserted City 

-The Lost World of 1980s New York 

-Brain Surgery, Heart Surgery, and Mortality 

-Writing a Memoir and Revisiting the Past 

-Rielle Hunter and the John Edwards Scandal 

-Quitting Cocaine and Confronting Addiction 

-The Friends Who Didn't Survive 

-What's Left to Accomplish

Monologue photo provided courtesy of the Odeon (in the intro)
 


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