Cory be like "I wrote about this in a story of mine in 2019" when the bit about YT's mom in her office in Stephenson's Snow Crash, 30 years before TFA was written, perfectly captures the present situation.
Yeah but he didn’t write it so it doesn’t matter, that’s why he has half a dozen links to his own work in a short essay.
The man isn’t wrong but the relentless self promotion Doctorow does always comes over as mildly off putting.