Most 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 McInerneyA creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Jay McInerneyYeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.
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