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Mark Leyner (born January 4, 1956) is an American postmodernist author. Biography. [ edit] Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1977 and a M.F.A. from University of Colorado in 1979.
Mar 21, 2012 · Mark Leyner, World-Champion Satirist, Returns to Reclaim His Crown. There is a clip online of the Charlie Rose show from 1996, in which Rose invited three young novelists to talk about the...
Feb 28, 2016 · Mark Leyner manages to make run-on sentences, erotic digressions and manic depression engaging in his autobiographical novel, Gone with the Mind.
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is a postmodernist/absurdist book written by Mark Leyner, published by Vintage Contemporaries in 1990. Portions of it were originally published in Fiction International , Rolling Stock , Hallwalls Anthology , Esquire or Harper's Magazine before being compiled into its current form.
Apr 14, 2016 · When The Paris Review last interviewed Mark Leyner, in 2013, he announced his next book. “Gone with the Mind is my autobiography in the form of a first-person-shooter game,” he said. “You’ll have to blast your way back into my mother’s womb.”
Mark Leyner’s name has been familiar to readers of experimental fiction since 1995, when he published his first story collection, I Smell Esther Williams, but it was his second collection, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (with its memorable...
Apr 27, 2016 · In his new novel, Gone with the Mind, the satirical and experimental writer Mark Leyner creates the tale of Mark Leyner, a novelist on a downward career trajectory whose latest book launch is being held at a nonfiction reading series curated by his mother in a New Jersey mall food court.
Jan 27, 2021 · A Mad Scientist: Mark Leyner Interviewed. If this novel was a mood board, it would include Virginia Woolf, karaoke bars, Filipino knife fighting, Amelia Bedelia, and more. January 27, 2021.
Mar 3, 2016 · UPDATED: May 9, 2019 at 11:00 p.m. No one could ever accuse Mark Leyner of being in a rut. With his restless imagination, his eye for the absurd and his occasionally ribald humor — he’s best...
Sep 13, 1992 · MARK LEYNER MAY well be the best-built comic novelist in America. But his rise to that unique position is a saga of nearly unrelieved banality, a Middle American epic that unfolds almost...