We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
Jay McInerneyMost all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, "Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas."
Jay McInerneyYou know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
Jay McInerney