His most recent review ties in the the continuing story of a love letter he wrote to a rock star who used to be a real person to him. She still hasn’t responded.
This quote: “We spend our lives awash in yearnings and disillusionments and stubborn imagination, and for all they touch us, they might as well be cell-phone pings. Actually, the cell-phone pings touch us enough to make us worry about brain tumors. The waves that transmit anonymous crushes don’t even merit alarmist asides on third-tier local news programs.”