How to Romanticize Your Decade-Plus of Lame Partying

Jay McInerney’s 1984 novel Bright Lights Big City is famous for being written in the second person, for romanticizing a certain time and place — New York City in the 1980s — and for using a certain phrase to describe cocaine. The story starts in a dance club where “you” are deciding whether to do another line. “It’s 6 a.m., do you know where you are? You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy…. All might come clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian marching powder.” <a href="https://medium.com/@quinn_michaels/how-to-romanticize-your-decade-plus-of-lame-partying-3b918779e1d9">Website</a>