Jump to content

Mark Leyner: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Gdpdx (talk | contribs)
Selected works: corrected date of first publication of his first anthology
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
Jough (talk | contribs)
 
(17 intermediate revisions by 12 users not shown)
Line 10: Line 10:
| image_size =
| image_size =
| alt =
| alt =
| caption = August 2006
| caption = Leyner in August 2006
| native_name =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| native_name_lang =
| pseudonym =
| pseudonym =
| birth_name =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 4 January 1956 <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|1|4}}
| birth_place =
| birth_place = [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| death_place =
| death_place =
Line 25: Line 25:
| ethnicity =
| ethnicity =
| citizenship =
| citizenship =
| education = [[Brandeis University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Colorado]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])
| education =
| alma_mater =
| alma_mater =
| period =
| period =
Line 43: Line 43:
| portaldisp =
| portaldisp =
}}
}}
'''Mark Leyner''' (born 4 January 1956) is an American [[postmodern literature|postmodernist]] author.
'''Mark Leyner''' (born January 4, 1956) is an American [[postmodern literature|postmodernist]] author.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Mark Leyner was born in [[Jersey City, NJ]] to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B.A. from [[Brandeis University]] in 1977 and a M.F.A. from [[University of Colorado]] in 1979. He was briefly married to Arleen Portada, before marrying his second wife, Mercedes and having a daughter, Gabrielle.<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/leyner-mark-1956</ref>
Mark Leyner was born in [[Jersey City, NJ]] to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B.A. from [[Brandeis University]] in 1977 and a M.F.A. from [[University of Colorado]] in 1979. He was briefly married to Arleen Portada, before marrying his second wife, Mercedes and having a daughter, Gabrielle.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/leyner-mark-1956| title = Leyner, Mark 1956– {{!}} Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>


Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of [[fiction]]. His stories are generally humorous and absurd, with bizarre juxtapositions of people, places and things reminiscent of a [[Mad Lib]]. Leyner incorporates many medical references throughout his work.
Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of [[fiction]]. His stories are generally humorous and absurd, with bizarre juxtapositions of people, places and things reminiscent of a [[Mad Lib]]. Leyner incorporates many medical references throughout his work.
Line 67: Line 67:
**''Et Tu, Babe'' (1992)
**''Et Tu, Babe'' (1992)
**''The Tetherballs of Bougainville'' (1998)
**''The Tetherballs of Bougainville'' (1998)
**''The Sugar Frosted Nutsack'' (2012)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.littlebrowncatalog.tumblr.com/post/5363090178/leyner |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319133145/http://littlebrowncatalog.tumblr.com/post/5363090178/leyner |archivedate=2012-03-19 }}</ref>
**''The Sugar Frosted Nutsack'' (2012)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.littlebrowncatalog.tumblr.com/post/5363090178/leyner |title=The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319133145/http://littlebrowncatalog.tumblr.com/post/5363090178/leyner |archivedate=2012-03-19 }}</ref>
**''Gone with the Mind'' (2016)<ref>http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-leyner/gone-with-the-mind/9780316323253/</ref>
**''Gone with the Mind'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-leyner/gone-with-the-mind/9780316323253/ |title=Gone with the Mind - Hachette Book Group |website=www.hachettebookgroup.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119104958/http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-leyner/gone-with-the-mind/9780316323253/ |archive-date=2015-11-19}} </ref>
**''Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit'' (2021)
**''Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit'' (2021); reprinted as ''Daughter (Waiting for Her Drunk Father to Return from the Men's Room)'' (2022)
*Short story collections:
*Short story collections:
**''I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories'' (1983)
**''I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories'' (1983)
Line 78: Line 78:
**''[[Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour]]'' (2006)
**''[[Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour]]'' (2006)
**''[[Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing like a Real M.D.]]'' (2008)
**''[[Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing like a Real M.D.]]'' (2008)
*Anthologies
**''A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader'' (2024)


== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
Line 105: Line 107:
[[Category:American short story writers]]
[[Category:American short story writers]]
[[Category:Brandeis University alumni]]
[[Category:Brandeis University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Colorado alumni]]
[[Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Hoboken, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Writers from Hoboken, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Postmodern writers]]
[[Category:American postmodern writers]]
[[Category:Jewish American novelists]]
[[Category:Jewish American novelists]]
[[Category:American male short story writers]]
[[Category:American male short story writers]]

Latest revision as of 14:24, 10 December 2024

Mark Leyner
Leyner in August 2006
Leyner in August 2006
Born (1956-01-04) January 4, 1956 (age 68)
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationBrandeis University (BA)
University of Colorado (MFA)

Mark Leyner (born January 4, 1956) is an American postmodernist author.

Biography

[edit]

Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1977 and a M.F.A. from University of Colorado in 1979. He was briefly married to Arleen Portada, before marrying his second wife, Mercedes and having a daughter, Gabrielle.[1]

Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction. His stories are generally humorous and absurd, with bizarre juxtapositions of people, places and things reminiscent of a Mad Lib. Leyner incorporates many medical references throughout his work.

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 the sentence level, Leyner uses sprawling imagery and an extravagant vocabulary, bordering on prose poetry.

Leyner has also worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and as a writer for the MTV program Liquid Television. He also co-wrote and voiced a short-lived series of audio fiction called Wiretap.

Leyner also studied with noted post-modern author Steve Katz at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

During the 1990s, Leyner was a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, together with his dog Carmella.[2]

In the mid-to-late 2000s, Leyner collaborated with Dr. Billy Goldberg on three humorous, though fact-based, books on medicine.

Filmography

[edit]

He is credited with co-authoring the screenplay of War, Inc.

Selected works

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • Phillip Wise (Spring 1996). "Schwarzenegger Imagery in Mark Leyner's Et Tu, Babe". Deep South. 2 (3).

Notes and references

[edit]
  1. ^ "Leyner, Mark 1956– | Encyclopedia.com".
  2. ^ Grimes, William. "The Ridiculous Vision of Mark Leyner", The New York Times, September 13, 1992. Accessed February 6, 2013. "When Leyner says, 'Stop it, Carmella,' or 'Get over here,' the dog ignores him, and continues to sow chaos in her master's apartment in Hoboken, N.J."
  3. ^ "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
  4. ^ "Gone with the Mind - Hachette Book Group". www.hachettebookgroup.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
[edit]