SOURCE: "From a Cool Dude in a Hip, Literary Mood," in The New York Times, March 7, 1995, p. C18.

In the review below, Kakutani finds the short stories included in Leyner's collection Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog to be "clever and amusing and willfully superficial."

Reading Mark Leyner's new collection of short pieces [Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog] isn't like reading a book exactly. It's more like spending several hours with the Comedy Channel on cable television, or a long evening with a couple of teen-agers on acid. Imagine Beavis and Butt-head morphed with William S. Burroughs or Michael O'Donoghue crossed with Eugène Ionesco; then picture the twisted products of their imaginations projected on one of those big-screen television sets, with the volume turned all the way up. The results are intermittently hilarious, but also silly and highly sophomoric.

Essentially a collection of pieces Mr. Leyner...