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Gone With the Mind

Post-modern master Mary Leyner, author of the novels The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, Et Tu, Babe, and The Tetherballs of Bougainville celebrates the release of his highly anticipated autobiographical new novel Gone with the Mind.

About Gone With the Mind:

Dizzyingly brilliant and raucously funny, Gone With the Mind is the story of Mark Leyner’s life, told as only Mark Leyner can.

In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark’s mother, who’s driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food chain Panda Express who ask a handful of questions, the reading is completely without audience. The action of Gone With the Mind takes place exclusively at the food court, but the territory covered on these pages has no bounds.

Existential, self-aware, and very much concerned with the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son, Leyner’s story—with its bold, experimental structure—is a moving work of genius.











When: Tue., Mar. 8, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: BookCourt
163 Court St., Brooklyn

Price: Free
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Post-modern master Mary Leyner, author of the novels The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, Et Tu, Babe, and The Tetherballs of Bougainville celebrates the release of his highly anticipated autobiographical new novel Gone with the Mind.

About Gone With the Mind:

Dizzyingly brilliant and raucously funny, Gone With the Mind is the story of Mark Leyner’s life, told as only Mark Leyner can.

In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark’s mother, who’s driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food chain Panda Express who ask a handful of questions, the reading is completely without audience. The action of Gone With the Mind takes place exclusively at the food court, but the territory covered on these pages has no bounds.

Existential, self-aware, and very much concerned with the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son, Leyner’s story—with its bold, experimental structure—is a moving work of genius.

Buy tickets/get more info now