Mark Leyner

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January 01, 1956 in The United States

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male

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Science, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author.

Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction. His stories are generally humorous and absurd: In The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark's father survives a lethal injection at the hands of the New Jersey penal system, and so is freed but must live the remainder of his life in fear of being executed, at New Jersey's discretion, in any situation and regardless of collateral damage. They frequently incorporate elements of meta-fiction: In the same novel, an adolescent Mark produces a film adaptation of the story of his father's failed execution, although he reads a newspaper review of the movie to the prison's warden, and then dies, before even leaving the prison. At t...more

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Books by Mark Leyner

Average rating: 3.49 · 6,698 ratings · 820 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, Billy Goldberg, M.D. 3.35 avg rating — 3,226 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Et Tu, Babe 3.79 avg rating — 809 ratings — published 206 — 9 editions	My rating:
	My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist 3.62 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg 3.54 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Tetherballs of Bougainville 3.74 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog 3.61 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	I Smell Esther Williams 3.48 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 3.04 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide To Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg 3.09 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Dream Date With Di 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995	My rating:

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Quotes by Mark Leyner

“Do it, my fellow Americans! Do it for every adolescent
anomic skank genius cloistered in his room, getting cranked,
rabidly humping his sampler as he confects some heretical,
monstrous persona for himself and dreams of an orgiastic,
blood-soaked apocalypse. Yes, the /impudence!/ We have
/nothing/ in this life of suffocating obligation but our
own motherfucking impudence! For God's sake, give us this
day our motherfucking big-dick impudence!!”
― Mark Leyner, The Tetherballs of Bougainville

6 people liked it

“Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!”
― Mark Leyner, The Tetherballs of Bougainville

6 people liked it

“You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.”
― Mark Leyner, I Smell Esther Williams

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