The Semiotics of Taste: Nuance and Metaphor in the Wine Writings of Jay McInerney

Jay is the author of twelve books, most recently Bright, Precious Days. His other novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Model Behavior, and The Good Life, which received the Grand Prix Littéraire.

McInerney’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Review of Books. He writes a monthly wine column for Town & Country and was previously the wine columnist for the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden. Many of those columns were collected in Bacchus and Me and A Hedonist in the Cellar.