Title: All Pose, Little Substance
Product review: Okay, here's the latest thing that not-very-smart people can feel smart about liking. It's provocative (in a simplistic way), surrealistic, and utterly without emotional heft. But it has the patina of knowingness and sophistication, so people can feel safe championing it at cocktail parties. But, alas, it's empty; it confuses non-sequitur with originality, provocativeness with true meaning, elusiveness with complexity. But don't buy the hype. Here's a writer who obviously has talent, but who must learn to be honest--to forget the posing--if he's ever to produce anything really worthwhile.
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