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Mark Leyner

@LeynerMark

King of the Ants, warlord of my stoop, novelist, screenwriter

 Hoboken
Joined February 2012
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Yoon@nicoscoscOct 21
“What! Our culture in its dotage! Yet this very poem refutes it, springing up out of the collective unconscious like a weasel through a grating.” — John Ashbery (from “The Decline of the West”)
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Join us on September 24th to celebrate the launch of @johncusack new book MOMO! Tickets available through the link in the @strandbookstore bio.
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Oh, really?
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David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose, 1996, twelve years before he killed himself: "Compulsory viewing of television is evil. One of the last refuges in which we can read are these interstitial zones, waiting for planes, check-out lines. Now airports have televisions."
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Yoon@nicoscoscMay 27
sometimes a little wine leads my fingers back here 🥂 🎹 Debussy: La plus que lente (recorded in a regrettably sober state 🐰 lol)
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Yoon@nicoscoscApr 29
Meanwhile, Adorno on Proust: “He kept faith with the childhood potential for unimpaired experience and, with all the reflectiveness and awareness of an adult, perceived the world in as undeformed a manner as the day it was created.” (“On Proust,” in Notes to Literature, Vol. 2)
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Yoon@nicoscoscApr 2
“The imagination is not, as its etymology suggests, the faculty for forming images of reality; it is the faculty for forming images which go beyond reality, which *sing* reality. It is a superhuman faculty. A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman.” — Gaston Bachelard
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I’d like to express my gratitude to Yoon Kim @nicoscosc for introducing me to a marvelous, absolutely unique writer I’d been completely unfamiliar with - Maria Gabriela Llansol.
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Thanks so much, Mike. This is extraordinarily flattering, especially coming from the likes of you!
mike sacks (@michaelbsacks) profile picturemike sacks@michaelbsacks16 Apr 2025
If there's a funnier writer than @LeynerMark, please let me know. It's like a higher life force level of intelligence. @RickKisonak @backbaybooks
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Mille grazie, Mike.
mike sacks (@michaelbsacks) profile picturemike sacks@michaelbsacks28 Jan 2025
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@LeynerMark is a genius. And a huge influence for me, and many others. He has a new book out and it looks amazing. If you like comedy, literature, pop culture, greatness, please buy this. amazon.com/Shimmering-Serrat…
A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader

A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader

Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles Yu), “visionary” (Sam Lipsyte), and “supremely original” (John Cusack), the work of Mark Leyner has inspired a generation of contemporary novelists and has...

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Preorder here: greencitybooks.com
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Yoon@nicoscosc3 Jan 2025
“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.” — Clarice Lispector from her last book, the incomplete A BREATH OF LIFE: Pulsations (compiled posthumously by her friend Olga Borelli, tr. Lorenz), excerpted in Moser’s biography
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nytimes.com/2024/12/19/books… via @NYTimes
‘The Mark Leyner Reader’ Doesn’t Mean Mark Leyner Is Done Writing (Published 2024)

‘The Mark Leyner Reader’ Doesn’t Mean Mark Leyner Is Done Writing (Published 2024)

“I’m like one of those deranged soldiers they find on some remote island still fighting a war that’s ended decades ago,” he says. “A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!” is his collection of comic fiction.

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Listen to @marcmaron rave about @LeynerMark on @WTFpod. wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1…
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TONIGHT! Join us at @POWERHOUSEArena to celebrate the launch of A SHIMMERING, SERRATED MONSTER: The @LeynerMark Reader! Featuring Sam Lipsyte, Nicole Rudick, Darcey Steinke and more! powerhousearena.com/events/b…
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Pub date February 1, 2025. My foray into science fiction, gene editing, and switched consciousness.
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I thought the earthquake was much better than the eclipse.
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