Jay McInerney is a writer from New York. It’s the 40th anniversary of his book Bright Lights, Big City, and we spoke with Jay from his Malibu home about when people call meat “protein,” cinnamon rolls, surfing in Malibu, we romanticize smoking in restaurants and on airplanes, blasting lines with Ray Carver, Absolut Vodka ads in the 80s and 90s, hanging with Bret Easton Ellis, sucks when the producer gets canceled, he finished his memoir but probably shouldn’t put it out, Keith McNally’s memoir, his hangover cure, classic New York restaurants, Tesla cars, and his thoughts on Substack.
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