America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.