Mark Leyner (1956 - present) is an American postmodernist author. In addition to his novels, he's worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and as a writer for MTV's Liquid Television. He also co-wrote and voiced a short-lived series of audio fiction called Wiretap, and he's credited for co-authoring the screenplay of War, Inc.
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. At the sentence level, Leyner uses sprawling imagery and an extravagant vocabulary, bordering on prose poetry.
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