Word: leyner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary...
...Crimson caught up with Leyner in the posh lobby of The Copley Plaza Hotel, where chain smoking Austrian conventioneers and jack-booted bellboys lent a surreal atmosphere of their...
...MARK LEYNER...
...things I foundparticularly funny about Et Tu, Babe[Leyner's second book], was that it was about awriter who attracts the same kind of celebrity asan actor or rock star...
...came to, I think, a stunning realization," Leyner continued after the crowd quieted. "Only in the late twentieth century have unimportant people become so important...