I recommend the author's book "In Persuasion Nation", a collection of short stories, mostly a kind of near-future sci-fi satirizing excesses of commercialism.

I recommend the author's book "In Persuasion Nation", a collection of short stories, mostly a kind of near-future sci-fi satirizing excesses of commercialism. Here is a story that made me pick up the book after I heard it on the radio: My Flamboyant Grandson": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/28/my-flamboyant-grandson https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/28/my-flamboyant-...