Killing the Buddha

Mark Dery is a cultural critic and the author of Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink. Raised in San Diego, near the Mexican-American border, he is writing Don Henley Must Die, a meditation on the culture psyche of Southern California. He teaches media criticism and creative nonfiction in the Department of Journalism at New York University.