Leyner (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack) applies his trademark brand of absurd, postmodern metafiction to this interesting autobiographical novel. The fictional Mark Leyner in this book is giving a reading ...

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It had been over 25 years since I’d read anything by Mark Leyner, when I was tempted by a publicist’s email promoting “A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader.” I was taken aback to ...

I don’t really know what Mark Leyner’s first novel in 15 years, “The Sugar-Frosted Nuts—” is really about. There are some gods, who live in Dubai. There is an unemployed butcher, who lives in Hoboken.

“His aesthetic was so intense, it almost made sense that it should burn itself out,” writer and critic Lev Grossman recently remarked in The New York Times about novelist Mark Leyner’s 14-year hiatus ...

This uneven but often hilarious satire is based on the premise that the great success of the author's first novel and his irresistible, steroid-enhanced physique have catapulted him to intergalactic ...

Twenty-five years ago when I arrived in New York, a friend born and raised there passed along a novel and two story collections written by Mark Leyner. He suggested the books were required reading for ...

No one could ever accuse Mark Leyner of being in a rut. With his restless imagination, his eye for the absurd and his occasionally ribald humor — he’s best known for a novel, “The Sugar Frosted ...