As story elements, the cauldron and the magical potion are almost overinvested with the history of Western literature and folklore.
Manhattan, spring of 2001. The dotcom bubble has burst, but the Beanie Babies bubble has not.
The book delivers on the promise of its title, as it’s full of destruction, misanthropy, and wanton nihilism.
What was once a nasty secret became an open secret and is now common knowledge: The middle class is being squeezed, mostly downward, out of existence.
Even the historical events in Mad Men are part of its empty surrealism.
In his too-brief career, he managed nothing less than to broaden the possibilities of what kind of confrontations clothes can provoke.