Due to rights issues, the audio of this interview is not available online. Please contact San Diego State University, Special Collections and Archives if you wish to be granted access to the original audio. Larry McCaffery interviews Mark Leyner in Leyner’s house in Hoboken, New Jersey. They begin with a discussion of the success of Leyner’s book My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. They discuss the notion of what the “canon” means for a younger, post-modern generation. Leyner discusses in-depth the influence of pop culture on his writing. An edited version of the interview appears on pages 219 to 240 of Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors, ed. Larry McCaffery, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
