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Bright Lights, Big City is a novel by American author Jay McInerney, published by Vintage Books on August 12, 1984. It is written about a character's time spent caught up in, and notably escaping from, the early 1980s New York City fast lane. The novel is written in the second person, an unusual narrative method in English language fiction.
"Bright Lights, Big City" is a classic blues song [1] which was written and first recorded by American bluesman Jimmy Reed in 1961. Besides being "an integral part of the standard blues repertoire", [2] "Bright Lights, Big City" has appealed to a variety of artists, including country and rock musicians, who have recorded their interpretations of the song.
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film directed by James Bridges, starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Dianne Wiest and Jason Robards, and based on the novel by Jay McInerney, who also wrote the screenplay. It was the last film directed by Bridges, who died in 1993.
Bright Lights, Big City is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book written by Scottish composer Paul Scott Goodman based on the 1984 novel by Jay McInerney.It follows a week in the life of Jamie, a successful young writer who loses himself in the chaos of 1980s New York City.
It Should've Been Me is the debut album of Zoot Money's Big Roll ... The album's liner notes were by Alexis Korner. Track listing ... "Bright Lights, Big City" "Fina ...
Bright Lights, Big City may refer to: "Bright Lights, Big City" (song), a 1961 song by Jimmy Reed; Bright Lights, Big City, a 1984 novel by Jay McInerney; Bright Lights, Big City, a 1988 film based on McInerney's novel; Bright Lights, Big City, a 1999 musical by Paul Scott Goodman, based on McInerney's novel "Bright Lights/Big City", a 2008 ...
When a series of lightning strikes took down power across New York City on the night of July 13, 1977, streetlights, neon signs, and the bright lights of houses and skyscrapers went dark.
His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie.