Reasons You Should Read Tinsel

First in a continuing series of nuggets from Hank Stuever's book Tinsel, which you should get, if you know what's good for you. If there are typos, they're mine. Page 67:

People sometimes go to the mall twice a day. On weekday mornings and afternoons it is the "Strollerbriar" of its nickname, filled with bored moms who visit over and over again, eddying out by the play area, and watch carefully as their children maniacally romp on toys in the shapes of a giant, smiling plastic cell phone and a computer terminal. On Friday nights Stonebriar Centre fills with packs of teenagers, who seem to have stepped right out of television shows about teenagers, who screech joyfully at one another between…