Osama bin Laden thought he was launching a revolution, but by the time he died the Arab Spring and America's mortgage meltdown made him irrelevant. Novelist Dana Vachon on the terrorist's non-legacy.
Dana Vachon is a writer living in Manhattan.
Osama bin Laden thought he was launching a revolution, but by the time he died the Arab Spring and America's mortgage meltdown made him irrelevant. Novelist Dana Vachon on the terrorist's non-legacy.
You're still reading Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City 25 years later, says Dana Vachon, because you're just as self-absorbed as the culture it predicted.