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Wine Reads - by Jay McInerney (Paperback)

Wine Reads - by  Jay McInerney (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>From celebrated novelist Jay McInerney, whose extensive writing on wine has been called "crisp, stylish and very funny" (<i>New York Times Book Review</i>), comes an intelligent collection of great writing about wine</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney--bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for <i>Town & Country</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, and <i>House and Garden</i>--selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making, selling, and of course, drinking of fine wine.<p> Including excerpts from novels, short fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, <i>Wine Reads</i> features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhône in a chapter from his classic <i>Adventures on the Wine Route</i>. In an excerpt from <i>Between Meals</i>, long-time <i>New Yorker</i> writer A. J. Liebling raises feeding and imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art form--and discovers a very good rosé from just west of the Rhone. Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a lesson in Barolo, Barbaresco, and Brunello vintages from an eccentric celebrity. In real life, and over half a century ago, Jewish-Czech writer and gourmet Joseph Wechsberg visits the medieval Château d'Yquem to sample different years of the "roi des vins" alongside a French connoisseur who had his first taste of wine at age four.<p> Also showcasing an iconic scene from Rex Pickett's <i>Sideways</i> and work by Jancis Robinson, Benjamin Wallace, and McInerney himself, this is an essential volume for any disciple of Bacchus.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for Jay McInerney: </b><p> "The best wine writer in America."<b>--<i>Salon</i>, on <i>The Juice</i></b><p> "As bracing as high-acid Riesling."<b>--<i>Washington Post</i>, on <i>A Hedonist in the Wine Cellar</i></b><p> "His wine judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty and his literary references impeccable."<b>--<i>New York Times</i>, on <i>Bacchus and Me</i></b><p> "Brilliant, witty, comical and often shamelessly candid."<b>--Robert M. Parker, on <i>Bacchus and Me</i></b><p> "Splendid vino vignettes [that] pique both curiosity and thirst."<b>--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>, on <i>A Hedonist in the Cellar</i></b><p> "An immensely pleasurable and literate splash in to McInerney's favorite glass over the last decade."<b>--<i>Daily Beast</i>, on <i>The Juice</i></b><p> "A whirlwind tour of the wine world with a wry companion who is clearly at home and enjoying the subject."<b>--Danny Meyer, on <i>Bacchus and Me</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jay McInerney</b> is the author of twelve books, most recently <i>Bright, Precious Days</i>. His other novels include <i>Bright Lights, Big City</i>, <i>Model Behavior</i> and <i>The Good Life</i>, which received the Grand Prix Littéraire. His short story collection <i>How It Ended</i> was named one of the 10 best books of the year by the <i>New York Times</i>. McInerney's work has appeared in <i>New York Magazine</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i>, the <i>New Yorker</i>, the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, <i>Guardian</i>, the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> and the <i>New York Review of Books</i>. He writes a monthly wine column for <i>Town & Country</i> and was previously the wine columnist for the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> and <i>House and Garden</i>. Many of those columns were collected in <i>Bacchus and Me</i> and <i>A Hedonist in the Cellar</i>. In 2006 McInerney won the James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing. In 1989 McInerney was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library.

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