Mark Leyner

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)

“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

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

@xtebordo @LeynerMark haha it's been a while since I've read one of these awesome goofball bits of his

funny that @LeynerMark doesn't post much here because he mastered this website's main gesture almost two decades before it existed.

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

@LeynerMark 🖤🖤 It means a lot to hear that! SO happy to have shared her work with you. :)

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.

@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!

@LeynerMark Your work has been a huge, huge influence, and I just marvel at the quality you've maintained over these years. Just astonishing.

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

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other -Diane di Prima and this exquisite opening to the revolutionary letters

Mille grazie, Mike.

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“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

nytimes.com/2024/12/19/boo… via @NYTimes

Listen to @marcmaron rave about @LeynerMark on @WTFpod. wtfpod.com/podcast/episod…

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! powerhousearena.com/events/book-la…

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”

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

I thought the earthquake was much better than the eclipse.

Finished reading Mark Leyner's "Daughter (Waiting For Her Drunk Father To Return From The Men's Room)." amzn.to/457pakP 📖👨‍🦲🍻🚽 Equal parts weird, clever, intricate, snide, and snarky, making for one fun read. #books #reading @LeynerMark @littlebrown #BookTwitter

@emilynussbaum The Beatles’ “Yer Blues” references Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man.”

I’m making a playlist of songs in which the singer describes *another* song, but we don’t actually hear that song… and so far the only two entries are Killing Me Softly With His Song and The Monster Mash Please suggest other examples!