Mark Leyner

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in The United States

January 01, 1956

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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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Average rating: 3.50 · 9,690 ratings · 1,063 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors

	Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg 3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 4,930 ratings — published 1995 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Et Tu, Babe 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,044 ratings — published 206 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist 3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 932 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tetherballs of Bougainville 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2.94 of 5 stars 2.94 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Smell Esther Williams 3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide To Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg 3.09 of 5 stars 3.09 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Made: New Fiction from the Fiction Collective by Curtis White (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Leyner (Editor), Curtis White (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

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“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

7 people liked it

“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

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