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, ran...
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Meyer is an American educator. In the review below, she lauds Leyner's collection of short stories I Smell Esther Williams, finding the prose to be "chaotic and exhilarating."
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In the following review of Et Tu, Babe, Frumkes discusses what he considers instances of "unrelenting megalomania, narcissism and disjointed narrative flow" in Leyner's novel.
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Kakutani is a regular reviewer for New York Times. In the following mixed review of Et Tu, Babe, she praises its inventiveness and irreverence but faults the book's satirical density or "...
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In the interview below, Leyner discusses his literary influences and preferences, his research sources, and his thoughts on the writing process.
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In the review below, Kakutani finds the short stories included in Leyner's collection Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog to be "clever and amusing and willfully superficial."
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In the following review, Marin favorably assesses Leyner's collection of short stories, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, praising its comical and satiric elements.
Mark Leyner isn't the ...
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In the following review of Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, Lord criticizes Leyner's tendency to write self-referential and self-promotional fiction.
I first encountered Mark Leyner's na...
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Mark Leyner
Critical Review by Charlotte M. Meyer
