Mark Leyner

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

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

sometimes a little wine leads my fingers back here 🥂

🎹 Debussy: La plus que lente

(recorded in a regrettably sober state 🐰 lol)

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

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)

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“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

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

@TheEsteemedFox @xtebordo Tina - Read some new awesome goofball bits. I highly recommend Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit.

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

@nicoscosc Her work is just remarkable! (I’m a huge fan of your posts, by the way. Thanks so much.)

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

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.

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

@michaelbsacks What can I say? It’s black coffee, Taoist mercury-based elixirs, Metamucil, and active lifelong relationships with alien beings. But again, mille grazie, baby!

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

Thanks so much, Mike. This is extraordinarily flattering, especially coming from the likes of you!

[mike sacks @michaelbsacks]

If there's a funnier writer than @LeynerMark, please let me know. It's like a higher life force level of intelligence.

@RickKisonak
@backbaybooks

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other

-Diane di Prima and this exquisite opening to the revolutionary letters

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

Mille grazie, Mike.

[mike sacks @michaelbsacks]

@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.

https://t.co/kYJ9E1RdXl

[Susan Daitch @susan_daitch]

Preorder here: https://t.co/il5jtIiulX

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“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

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

https://t.co/ZFhA6yQ4rV via @NYTimes

[Little, Brown and Co @littlebrown]

Listen to @marcmaron rave about @LeynerMark on @WTFpod. https://t.co/LtK66lAJkC

[Little, Brown and Co @littlebrown]

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! https://t.co/SmnWj5sBzB

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Friday was grand.
We went out, we came
back, we went wild. You
slept. Me too. The pup
woke you and you dressed
and walked him. When
you left, I was sleeping.

- James Schuyler, “a photograph”

[Susan Daitch @susan_daitch]

Pub date February 1, 2025. My foray into science fiction, gene editing, and switched consciousness.

[Mark Leyner @LeynerMark]

I thought the earthquake was much better than the eclipse.

[Paul Semel @paulsemel]

Finished reading Mark Leyner's "Daughter (Waiting For Her Drunk Father To Return From The Men's Room)."
https://t.co/UantYn1mya
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Equal parts weird, clever, intricate, snide, and snarky, making for one fun read.
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