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	Mark Leyner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Leyner (born 1956) is an American postmodernist author.
		Leyner has also worked as a columnist for magazines Esquire and George, and as a writer for the MTV program Liquid Television.
		Leyner is most famously critiqued (in an essay that simultaneously derides and champions him) by fellow postmodernist, David Foster Wallace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Leyner (265 words)

	Schwarzenegger Imagery in Mark Leyner's Et Tu, Babe.
		Mark Leyner is a New York writer who dives into this particular vortex with what seems to be irreverent disregard for the consequences.
		Leyner the writer is trying to stand in for the rush of static in his world: the world presented in the novel is a world totally mediated electronically or textually.
		Leyner is aware of the function of his bodybuilding: "Winning your place on the hierarchy is a basic part of primate life and every day is a savage, pitiless battle for dominance, so....I have the body of a grotesquely swollen steroid freak.
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol2no3/wise.html (4022 words)

	Mark Leyner's Quirky World - Kristina Curkovic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If you've never encountered Mark Leyner's writing, you might suffer a little bit of a shock, perhaps encounter a bit of confusion, and certainly enjoy quite a few laughs during your reading.
		Set during some obscure, imagined period, it's the story of Mark, a precocious, wellread and horny little seventh grader who, to demonstrate his odd character, is, at the beginning of the novel, on the phone with his agent during his father's execution by lethal injection.
		Leyner's is a fresh approach to life and literature.
	www.umich.edu /~mrev/archives/1997/10-8-97/leyner.htm (340 words)

	Amazon.ca: Et Tu, Babe: Books: Mark Leyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I've read everything by Leyner except "Tetherballs", and this is the pinnacle of the man's delerious madness, words flying together like ruin and recovery, spitting you high on Lincoln's morning breath, a grotesque electric calamity.
		Leyner has likened his readings to stand-up comedy and feels the skills and goals of his readings are the same as those of a stand-up performance.
		For Leyner, the motive behind appearing in his own story is the story itself: this is a book about celebrity and megalomania, and so Leyner really has no choice but to cast himself as the book's protagonist.
	www.amazon.ca /Tu-Babe-Mark-Leyner/dp/0679745068 (1367 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Tetherballs of Bougainville: a Novel: Books: Mark Leyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The narrative is, as usual with Leyner, taut with jackhammer style bursts of narrative.
		Leyner tends to stick to seemingly lighter subjects but in fact makes the same points with the use of broader comedy and absurdism.
		By following the flow of Leyner's insanity, you recognize, somewhat to your dismay, that you are just as much of a sucker for all things sticky-sweet-and-flashy-American as the next schmuck.
	www.amazon.ca /Tetherballs-Bougainville-Novel-Mark-Leyner/dp/067976349X (1254 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel: Livres en anglais: Mark Leyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mark Leyner's hyperactive, relentlessly vivid The Tetherballs of Bougainville stars a fictionalized 13-year-old version of himself.
		Young Leyner--who sounds just like the author, the conceit is insincere--must watch the state of New Jersey execute his PCP-addled father; lose his virginity in a drunken, drugged revel with the comely warden; and write a screenplay about these things, all within the space of a day.
		In this day in the life of his 13-year-old self, Leyner (Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, LJ 3/15/95) swings zanily from good news to bad, expertly satirizing pop culture and skewering some of his contemporaries along the way.
	www.amazon.fr /Tetherballs-Bougainville-Novel-Mark-Leyner/dp/0517701014 (488 words)

	Salon \| The Salon Interview: Mark Leyner
		As dazzlingly hilarious as Leyner's other books, "Tetherballs" is also the closest to, as Leyner puts it, "a bona fide novel." Its first part describes the failed execution of the fictional 13-year-old Leyner's father ("My father is not an evil person.
		The rest of "Tetherballs of Bougainville" consists of the screenplay itself, which simply records Mark's druggy tryst with the warden in her office.
		Yet it refers to Mark's scene with the warden, which he couldn't possible have known was going to happen when he wrote the review.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1997/12/cov_si_08leyner.html (725 words)

	Why does asparagus make my pee stink? - - MSNBC.com
		Jeremy tries to sidestep Leyner and as their arms brush, Leyner is covered with the grease that now oozes from Jeremy's pores.
		Leyner whispers to me, "This dude is all greased up like a rectal thermometer." I push Leyner away and he uses this opportunity to sneak over to the bar for another blast of Don Julio.
		Leyner tried this and found himself followed by a large goose of whom he seems to have become inordinately fond.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8815628 (1037 words)

	Mark Leyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There was a Mark Leyner book called "Untitled #2" with the ISBN of 0517701022 that you can sometimes find in search engines or on Amazon.
		Leyner is a very hyperactive mix of a biology thesis, a pop culture dictionary, and a homicidal terrorist weaving through rush hour traffic in an ambulance with an AK-47.
		Shameless plug: if you like Mark Leyner's style of writing and you are looking for something else similar, you might want to check out my book Rumored to Exist.
	www.rumored.com /lit-machine/writers/leyner.html (504 words)

	Q&A: Sex and the sleepy guy - Sexual Health - MSNBC.com
		In an interview with MSNBC.com, Leyner, a satirist and script writer, and Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician at a New York City hospital, discuss the battle of the sexes, why people are so captivated by our bizarre biology and their different styles of research.
		Leyner and Goldberg appear on The Body Odd, a bi-weekly MSNBC podcast.
		Mark: People are fascinated with what seem like extremes and oddities that feel like accidents, because it really is the true texture of human experience, as opposed to what we try to construct for ourselves that is more consoling through predictability.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14080457 (1183 words)

	Salon \| Books: The Tetherballs of Bougainville
		Leyner is released, but the state of New Jersey can exercise the option to kill him at any time.
		What Leyner does is amplify the life of things deadened by too much notice, as with a character called Len Gutman, a "signage copywriter" responsible for some of the slogans that dictate the basic movements of the population: Use Other Door, Visitors Must Sign In and Push to Start.
		Leyner goes so deeply in the subversion of everything he touches that the typical labels identifying writers as belonging to a specific genre have no effect on him at all.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1997/10/06review.html (499 words)

	Mark Leyner Summary
		By turns imaginative, verbose, and iconoclastic, Mark Leyner is a humorist and experimentalist who tackles the often ridiculous products of postmodern culture and squeezes new hybrids out of them, ranging from military academies of beauty to weight-loss...
		His stories are generally humorous and absurd: In The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark's father survives a lethal in...
		In the interview below, Leyner discusses his literary influences and preferences, his research sources, and his thoughts on the writing process.
	www.bookrags.com /Mark_Leyner (203 words)

	An Interview With Mark Leyner
		I first met Mark Leyner in a hotel lobby, in a strange bar, on Nob Hill, in the city of San Francisco.
		Leyner was in the midst of a twenty city tour in support of his last two books which had been brought out by Vintage.
		Leyner, this is your coffee, your egg-white omelette, this is your croissant," as if you're a complete moron.
	www.altx.com /int2/mark.leyner.html (2751 words)

	The Unofficial Mark Leyner Fan Page
		It's like he wrote this just for me. Mark and I, we are as brethren." Unfortunately, it's when I actually start writing that I realize that I could never do it like Mark does in a million years.
		Canned bio: Mark Leyner has written two collections of stories, I Smell Esther Williams, and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, a novel, Et Tu Babe, a collection of fiction, plays and journalism, Tooth Imprints On A Corn Dog, and a novel/screenplay/film review entitled The Tetherballs of Bougainville (just published in trade paperback by Vintage Contemporaries).
		Mark's most recent books are published by Vintage Contemporaries, a division of Random House, Inc. Order them directly from Random House.
	pws.cablespeed.com /~wsfrench/leyner.htm (608 words)

	Team Leyner: The Unofficial Mark Leyner Links Page
		Mark Leyner is the most intense, and, in a certain sense, the most significant young prose writer in America.
		As far as I can establish, Leyner is also some sort of cult figure in the US, where he appears on chat shows that we don't get in the UK, and writes for cool magazines that aren't widely available here either.
		Of course there's bloody "Schwarzenegger Imagery in Mark Leyner's Et Tu, Babe" - probably all those bits where he's talking about "Arnie", body-building, or maybe the sequence where they replace all the major actors in popular movies with, you've guessed it, computer-generated Schwarzeneggers.
	www.spesh.com /leyner (1506 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mark Leyner INTERVIEW BY LARRY MCCAFFERY MONDO 2000: Were the basic writing methods in your new book, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, any different from what you used in your earlier one, I Smell Esther Williams?
		MARK LEYNER: The methods were basically the same.
		Obviously readers are going to look at a book written by a person named "Mark" and they are going to see a Mark in the book-which is going to change the resonance of that rhetoric.
	gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70 /0/Publications/MONDO/mark-ley.txt (4881 words)

	Amazon.de: Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: English Books: Mark Leyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leyner: The first question for me that got the ball rolling was posed by Dr. Billy Goldberg.
		Goldberg: Mark has been recognized several times on the streets of Hoboken, but the best I have gotten was one of the security guards at the hospital saying, "Hey Doc, I saw you on TV." That, and the nurse’s aides calling me Dr. Nipples.
		Humbled, but galvanized and inspired by the immense challenge that lay before us, we hunkered down in a windowless, antiseptic research cocoon, and made a solemn pledge to produce a new volume that would surpass the original and blaze new trails in the democratization of medical knowledge.
	www.amazon.de /Why-Men-Fall-Asleep-After/dp/0307345971 (934 words)

	Mark Leyner
		MARK LEYNER: L.A. is always sort of amazing to me. When I go I make these business forays, and I get involved in all sorts of meetings and go to studios and have breakfast trysts in my hotel.
		I also have a couple of other projects in the works, one's a sit-com, and the other is a movie treatment that I wrote about a family that has a terrarium of tiny people.
		(Leyner was recently "bumped" from the scheduled line-up after Dave spent too much time flirting with Geena Davis.)
	proxy.arts.uci.edu /~nideffer/_SPEED_/1.1/leyner.html (2553 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel: Books: Mark Leyner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is a so-called "genre-buster" in that it is one of a new class of novels that strive to be completely unclassifiable.
		The protagonist of the novel is Mark, a thirteen-year-old highly precocious boy who strides around in leather pants and no shirt.
		This must be the best of Leyner's books, but it's still a difficult read.
	amazon.com /Tetherballs-Bougainville-Novel-Mark-Leyner/dp/067976349X (1926 words)

	Transom Shows: Wiretap
		Audible recently obtained wiretap tapes involved in an ongoing government surveillance operation in Princeton, New Jersey, led by Vincent Mastrobono, an ambitious Princeton police captain.
		Mark Leyner: (The Kid & Creator, lead writer, producer, performer) Comic novelist, screenwriter, and social satirist.
		Fielding held various executive-level positions in programming and business affairs at CBS Sports, a division of CBS, Inc., He is an accomplished jazz pianist and composer.
	www.transom.org /shows/2002/200201.shows.wiretap.html (828 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Books: Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leyner, who is a writer, and Goldberg, who is an MD, have a way of going around the question.
		While the bulk of the book is in the Qs and As, a good part consists of some hijinks at a cocktail party (thus the three martinis, although Leyner is mostly into Don Julio tequila).
		However, some of the facts are pretty obvious, and at times the book becomes a little tedious.A large positive is the witty humour, and the ongoing commentry from Leyner and Goldberg brings a smile to your face.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Why-Do-Men-Have-Nipples/dp/0752879693 (992 words)

	Mark Leyner - AOL Books
		Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes -- those burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen?
		His stories are generally humorous and absurd and frequently incorporate elements of meta-fiction.
		Mark Leynar, author of 'Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?.' Go to AOL Books for the latest book news, book reviews, book clubs, and book lists.
	books.aol.com /booklists/product/mark-leyner (274 words)

	Elle Magazine Mark Leyner Counseling Session
		I know he’d have an opinion about the “Chuck Knoblauch Syndrome,” since he would have been the one to catch (or not catch, as the case may be) the in-between throw, but I’m not sure he’d have much to say about the Mark Hughes connection with the onset of your second base woes.
		As he is a novelist (one with a vivid imagination), his idea was to write an inquiry from the point of view of a fictitious character and gather a variety of responses from Web therapists.
		Leyner is known as a satirist, I had to wonder just what angle Mr.
	www.drjudith.com /pg000014.htm (1804 words)

	Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. books : Lovereading UK
		Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. Mark Leyner is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog; I Smell Esther Williams; Et Tu Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville.
		Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. And lots of other answers to questions like the book title you darenât ask unless youâve had one too many.
		At lovereading you can download and read an opening extract and an online review of books by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D. and hundreds of other authors.
	www.lovereading.co.uk /author/880 (214 words)

	Eye Weekly - BOOKS: Donald Barthelme, Mark Leyner - 12.02.93
		Since My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist was first published the year after Barthelme's death, it sets Leyner up nicely as the executor of Don B.'s estate.
		The much-celebrated pseudo-novel hurtles down the slipstream packed with medical jargon, high-low culture collisions and a near-complete disregard for narrative.
		But like Barthelme's stories, Leyner's debut is most impressive for the variety and cleverness of his ideas, so much so that whether or not they're slotted anywhere in particular is irrelevant.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.02.93/ARTS/bo1202f.php (238 words)

	Mark Leyner - Et Tu, Babe Reviews at Shopping.com
		Mark Leyner - Et Tu, Babe Reviews at Shopping.com
		Mark Leyner is holding a silenced Uzi to my forehead.
		Buy Mark Leyner's book Now at 20% off.
	www.shopping.com /xPR-Et_Tu_Babe_by_Mark_Leyner (138 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| I Smell Esther Williams by Mark Leyner
		A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.
		"Leyner's brilliantly discontinuous humor invites comparison with William Burroughs....
		It's rude, epic shtick that begs to be read aloud to friends and strangers alike -- if only you could figure out where to stop." -- Village Voice
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679750451 (130 words)

	I smell Esther Williams : and other stor… by Mark Leyner \| LibraryThing
		I smell Esther Williams : and other stor… by Mark Leyner
		Tooth imprints on a corn dog by Mark Leyner (18/59)
		The Tetherballs of Bougainville : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Leyner (14/63)
	www.librarything.com /catalog.php?work=229536 (329 words)

	Powell's Books - Et Tu, Babe (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Leyner
		In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models — which naturally revolve around him.
		Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny — and you'd better hope it's just fiction.
		"Leyner is a twisted wizard, a genre-busting virtuoso, working at the outer edge of narrative convention." — Jay McInerney
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0679745068 (258 words)

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