An Evening with Jay McInerney in conversation with Cristina Favretto

The saga that began with Bright Lights, Big City reaches its conclusion as Jay McInerney delivers the final volume in his Calloway tetralogy. Following Brightness Falls (1992), The Good Life (2006), and Bright, Precious Days (2016), this new novel from Alfred A. Knopf finds Russell and Corrinne in their sixties, contending with a pandemic, shifting social landscapes, and the accumulated weight of a life built together. McInerney brings the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the sharp social satire of Evelyn Waugh to bear on a portrait of a marriage that has outlasted nearly every crisis of the modern era. His first novel in a decade, it is a fitting and deeply felt close to one of contemporary fiction’s most enduring love stories.