21 March 2006
Tuesday 21 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Susan Hitch talks to novelist Jay McInerney. Since the huge success of his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City,written when he was just twenty-eight, McInerney has carved out a reputation as the chronicler of New York glamour and dissipation.
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In Night Waves tonight, Susan Hitch talks to novelist Jay McInerney. Since the huge success of his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, written when he was just twenty-eight, McInerney has carved out a reputation as the chronicler of New York glamour and dissipation. Now, middle-aged and a father, he's turning his back on the high life. His latest novel, The Good Life, focuses on a group of affluent New Yorkers as they try to discover lost meaning in their lives post 9/11.
Also in tonight's programme - where are Britain 's intellectuals? And what use are they? In an era when opinion bursts out of every newspaper, website and TV programme, Stefan Collini and Philip Hensher debate whether intellectuals can help us get at underlying facts and deeper truths of world events. And we'll be remembering a great post-war public intellectual -AJP Taylor - who was born a hundred years ago this week.
Plus - Oscar nominated Transamerica reviewed. And - Simon Bolivar - why George Bush fears the nineteenth century Latin American revolutionary today.
That's all on Night Waves with Susan Hitch tonight at nine thirty, here on Radio Three.
Additional information
Transamerica, cert 15, opens around the country this Friday, March 24th.
The Good Life by Jay McInerney is out now, published by Bloomsbury.
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain is out now, published by Oxford University Press.
