Gone with the Mind the rook files and a misguided "grand gesture"

and a misguided "grand gesture" at a Miss America pageant

This is not the kind and cuddly guy who kisses babies and takes pictures with your mom while leaving a voicemail for that distant cousin in college

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Gone with the Mind the rook files and a misguided "grand gesture"The blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's "rare, true original voices" (Gary Shteyngart). Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, Gone with the Mind is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it. In this utterly unconventional novel or is it a memoir? Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shopping mall. The "audience" consists of Mark's mother and