What's happened to Mark Leyner?

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Recently I became interested in Mark Leyner, writer of books such as "Et Tu, Babe" and "I Smell Esther Williams". He sounds quite an interesting writer and I will be buying one of his books soon - but while searching the net for info on him, I noticed that all information on Leyner on the net stops dead after 1997. It's like after that year he dropped off the face of the planet. What's happened to him?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought he wrote for GQ and stuff, did book tours. Was this all before 1997? I've never really noticed. I'm sure my brother had a GQ from a couple of years ago with a column he did in it.

― Crystal (Crystal), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw an article in a 2002 New Yorker, but I guess you mean 'what does he do now'. Have you read S.J. Perelman?

― Crystal (Crystal), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to think that the portals of hell opened and swallowed him whole. Shame he didn't drop from the face of the earth.

My ire is based on reading his interminable, pointless, so '90s I could puke, "My Cousin, the Gastroenterologist." Which could only be enjoyed by people who wish Bono would dress up like the Fly again. And not because he looked goofy, but because it was really deep.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 December 2002 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yes perelman is thee greatest!
Ha ha "so '90s i could puke", i'd forgotten the '90s is already some crappy historical period to some people....se to me it's still, like THE FUTURE. i luv leyner, if that's all the bad stuff about the '90s right there it was a pretty good decade man!

― duane, Monday, 16 December 2002 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony I can see how you could find him really hollowly pretentious, using the adjective limming and all that (I know that's part of the schtick), but he still has some really funny jokes and lots of good stuff. I loved that routine about looking for the Barbie doll and going deeper and deeper into the basement of Macy's or wherever. Those are pretty classically funny jokes, like the one about the tiny satellite pictures of Leyner looking at barbie accessories printed on the documents in Barbies accessory briefcase.

― Crystal (Crystal), Monday, 16 December 2002 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

So he writes for magazines now? Goodo. I haven't read any S.J. Perelman, he sounds like an interesting chap tho.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

it is so odd that this dude ended up writing those weird "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" odd doctor question collaborations you always see on the "buy two get one free" tables at borders and nobles etc.

i have vaguely fond memories of his books but find it hard to imagine reading any of them again.

― ITS BEEN SIX MONTHS. TIME FOR YOUR CHECKUP. (jjjusten), Saturday, 7 March 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

nyt magazine article - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/magazine/mark-leyner.html?ref=magazine

― just sayin, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:47 (thirteen years ago)

yea 'et tu' def holds up well imo

― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:52 (thirteen years ago)

obv, that article is glowing as all get-out but it has me p jazzed for 'nutsack'

― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:05 (thirteen years ago)

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is perhaps my favorite contemporary fiction. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack will probably be read in one evening on arrival (Delivery Estimate: Thursday March 29, 2012 - Saturday March 31, 2012).

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:53 (thirteen years ago)

Oh, awesome - had no idea he'd vanished into the maw of Hollywood.

― etc, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:33 (thirteen years ago)

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