Mark Leyner's Reading List

"Not only did I think it was great, but I discovered a whole substratum of "Dark Dickens" in there, a whole phantasmagoria like something out of Lautréamont or Burroughs."

"I recommended Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" to my wife, Mercedes."

"I recommended… Janet Malcolm's book about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, "Two Lives," to my mother."

"I recommended… Bernadette Mayer's "Works and Days" and Stein's "Tender Buttons" to my daughter, Gaby."

""Tender Buttons" still seems so punk to me and, at the same time, the product of such precise calculations."