Gone with the Mind the rook files and now Iraq and Afghanistan

and now Iraq and Afghanistan define who we are as a nation and a people

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

"Beautifully crafted and dazzling

Gone with the Mind the rook files and now Iraq and AfghanistanThe 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