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Mark Leyner (born January 4, 1956) is an American postmodernist author. Biography. 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 18, 2021 · Leyner is no longer writing out brief flashes of erudite commercial speak. Instead, emotions and stylistic choices are being fleshed out, matching up to — complimenting, even — his sense of humour and tendencies towards a grotesque and scientific vocabulary.
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.
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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 opening riff: “I was an infinitely hot and dense dot” raised by “huge and lurid puppets ...
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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.
