Mark Leyner
Best-selling humorist behind Tetherballs of Bougainville and Why Do Men Have Nipples?
A favorite guest of The Late Show with David Letterman, Mark Leyner has been hailed as "the cult author of the '90s" by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone. In his work, Tetherballs of Bougainville, Leyner punctuates his talent for rendering the ridiculous with pin-point accuracy.
His critically-acclaimed novel My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist took American literati by storm when it was first published in 1990. He followed that with Et Tu, Babe, a shocking, tell-all, celebrity-studded chronicle that blended media, culture and trend with the same description-defying style that forged his cult status. The quintessential pop culture expose, Et Tu, Babe is currently in feature film development. In his next offering, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, Leyner's madness took him through tales of terrifying toddler gangs, robotic medical micro-Barbies, and This Week with David Brinkley action figures.
Bringing his hilariously twisted world to the campus stage, Leyner offers audiences a healthy helping of contemporary satire. Featuring outrageous readings from his best-selling books and essays, his program addresses everything from social isolationism to private lives of Albert Einstein to the deadly subversiveness of Family Affair. Leyner also discusses his experiences in perhaps the most twisted of all realities - Hollywood - advising others on how they can share in the insanity.
In his latest book, Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini, Leyner and his co-author, Dr. Billy Goldberg, address factual, not to mention funny, answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is the novel that established Leyner as one of our most brilliantly subversive young writers. And from there his sprawling comic imagination took him beyond all bounds to create the Mark Leyner who inhabits Et Tu, Babe. Jet-propelling himself through the colliding worlds of celebrity, cyberpunk, pop-culture, and rabid egotism, Leyner created a literary reality where he is loved and admired by virtually everyone, including Martha Stewart, Carl Sagan, and the Victoria's Secret models.
Since Et Tu, Babe's publication, Leyner has settled down and become a father, but fatherhood hasn't caused him to lose his "edge, his wild style - that aura of danger and delinquency that's such an indispensable constituent of a man's sex appeal." With Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, a random collection of short stories and humor pieces, Leyner's zany world was once again unveiled.
Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and The New York Times are avidly tracking Leyner's status as "America's best-built comic novelist." Homage from Carlin Romano at the Philadelphia Inquirer resonates with quiet veneration: "[Leyner is] increasingly the cult writer of the MTV generation that wants its language fast, hyper, kinetic, juiced [and is] distinctive for articulating impossible combinations of reality that other people grasp at in dreams." Rick Marin at Newsweek calls Leyner "the Quentin Tarantino of cult fiction" and "Hunter S. Thompson for the on-line generation." Leyner unselfconsciously echoes the critics, calling himself the "most significant young prose writer in America."
In addition to his books I Smell Esther Williams, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, Leyner has written for magazines including Esquire and Spin. He is also a frequent writer for the "Shouts and Murmurs" column of The New Yorker. He currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his wife, Mercedes, his daughter, Gabrielle and his "co-dependent" golden retriever.
Interested in booking Mark Leyner to speak at your next event?
His critically-acclaimed novel My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist took American literati by storm when it was first published in 1990. He followed that with Et Tu, Babe, a shocking, tell-all, celebrity-studded chronicle that blended media, culture and trend with the same description-defying style that forged his cult status. The quintessential pop culture expose, Et Tu, Babe is currently in feature film development. In his next offering, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, Leyner's madness took him through tales of terrifying toddler gangs, robotic medical micro-Barbies, and This Week with David Brinkley action figures.
Bringing his hilariously twisted world to the campus stage, Leyner offers audiences a healthy helping of contemporary satire. Featuring outrageous readings from his best-selling books and essays, his program addresses everything from social isolationism to private lives of Albert Einstein to the deadly subversiveness of Family Affair. Leyner also discusses his experiences in perhaps the most twisted of all realities - Hollywood - advising others on how they can share in the insanity.
In his latest book, Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini, Leyner and his co-author, Dr. Billy Goldberg, address factual, not to mention funny, answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is the novel that established Leyner as one of our most brilliantly subversive young writers. And from there his sprawling comic imagination took him beyond all bounds to create the Mark Leyner who inhabits Et Tu, Babe. Jet-propelling himself through the colliding worlds of celebrity, cyberpunk, pop-culture, and rabid egotism, Leyner created a literary reality where he is loved and admired by virtually everyone, including Martha Stewart, Carl Sagan, and the Victoria's Secret models.
Since Et Tu, Babe's publication, Leyner has settled down and become a father, but fatherhood hasn't caused him to lose his "edge, his wild style - that aura of danger and delinquency that's such an indispensable constituent of a man's sex appeal." With Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, a random collection of short stories and humor pieces, Leyner's zany world was once again unveiled.
Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and The New York Times are avidly tracking Leyner's status as "America's best-built comic novelist." Homage from Carlin Romano at the Philadelphia Inquirer resonates with quiet veneration: "[Leyner is] increasingly the cult writer of the MTV generation that wants its language fast, hyper, kinetic, juiced [and is] distinctive for articulating impossible combinations of reality that other people grasp at in dreams." Rick Marin at Newsweek calls Leyner "the Quentin Tarantino of cult fiction" and "Hunter S. Thompson for the on-line generation." Leyner unselfconsciously echoes the critics, calling himself the "most significant young prose writer in America."
In addition to his books I Smell Esther Williams, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, Leyner has written for magazines including Esquire and Spin. He is also a frequent writer for the "Shouts and Murmurs" column of The New Yorker. He currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his wife, Mercedes, his daughter, Gabrielle and his "co-dependent" golden retriever.
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