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  "path": "/issues/2026-4-18/bright-lights-big-vintage",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://airmail.news",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  Jay McInerney, photographed by Patrick McMullan outside the Odeon last Monday.\n\n##### In his debut column for AIR MAIL, which will cover all manner of drinking and partying, Jay McInerney sets the scene of a dinner at the Odeon in celebration of his last Calloway novel—magnums of Meursault, six-liter bottles of first-growth Bordeaux, and all\n\nBy Jay McInerney\n\nGenerally speaking, the wine at large parties and galas tends to be despicable. Friends of mine just go with vodka or tequila. But I’m an oenophile, and I often bring my own wine, which is just what I did the other night when my wife and Air Mail co-hosted a party for me at the Odeon to celebrate the publication of my new novel, _See You on the Other Side._\n\nThe setting was appropriate from a literary and a personal point of view—I’ve been going there since the place opened in 1980, when it became virtually the first hip READ ON",
  "title": "Bright Lights, Big Vintage"
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