Jay McInerney's newest novel is Bright, Precious Days. One of his six favorite books about New York City, as shared at The Week magazine:The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan LethemRead about another entry on the list.
Set in Brooklyn in the '70s and '80s, when gentrification existed in a hard-to-imagine future, this pop culture–soaked coming-of-age novel grapples with issues of race and class and family as it flirts with comic book–inspired magic realism. It even has a magic ring.
--Marshal Zeringue