This month's Meet the Author:
Jay McInerney, author of

The Last of the Savages

Alfred A. Knopf, $24

ISBN 0679428453

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Describe your book in 50 words or less:
LOTS chronicles the divergent but intertwined lives of two friends, Will Savage and Patrick Keene, from 1965 to the present. Patrick, a scholarship student, wants to join the establishment; Will, who comes from a very established Southern family, wants to tear it down.

What's your favorite line from your book?
"The capacity for friendship is Gods way of apologizing for our families."

What's your favorite book? Favorite movie?
Book: Ulysses
Movie: The American Friend.

Which artist's work influences you least?
Naomi Campbell.

What does your painting ritual involve?
Sitting down at my desk before 10:30 a.m. (any later and I have a hard time getting going) Pacing back and forth shortly after sitting down staying in my studio until 6 p.m.

Your most aggravating habit?
Losing all my possessions.

Which one extremely famous person would you like to read your book?
Flannery O'Conner.

If you had a yacht, what would you name it?
Helen

What one thing would you like to learn to do?
Play blues guitar.

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