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.
confession
by Mark Dery
A crack in Kevlar cynicism reveals a time of tripped out mysterium tremendum in Southern California. A new excerpt from the new KtB collection, Believer, Beware.
