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This was partially inspired by (1) the resilience of this very country to trauma and (2) "Car Bomb" by Mark Leyner:

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David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories and essays made him an heir to modern virtuosos like Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, an experimental contemporary of William T. Vollmann, Mark Leyner and Nicholson Baker and a clear influence on younger tour-de-force stylists like Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, Calif.

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There's also an autographed DVD of John Cusack's Mark Leyner-cowritten movie War, Inc. that's currently at $80, perfect for that Halliburton-hating, Military-Industrial-Complex dismantler on your Holiday gift list.

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He's a little guy who goes to the gym to get huge, even though fiction is where Leyner does all his heaviest lifting.

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I met Leyner briefly so, so many years ago, when he was the latest thing, and his book of short humorous pieces, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, had just been published.

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In a brief three-pager called "The (Illustrated) Body Politic," Leyner conducts a mock-investigative report on tattoos worn by U.S. senators: "A DNA double helix attached to a ball and chain means: 'My sibling is a convicted felon'."

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An award winner for his college fiction at Brandeis, Leyner toiled in obscurity for years, writing fiction for little quarterlies and ad copy for medical journals like Urology Today.

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Likably self-absorbed, Leyner writes about what he knows and loves best: himself.

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Then The Mississippi Review ran one of his short stories in an all-cyberpunk issue, Harper's reprinted it and suddenly he had a big agent and a big contract for his 1992 novel "Et To, Babe" - a brilliant riff on celebrity culture starring a famous musclebound writer named Mark Leyner who surrounds himself with a corporate entourage ( "'ream Leyner") of bodyguards and minions.

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Big contract: "I really don't like there to be a line in my book that isn't in neon," Leyner says.

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