SOURCE: "Buffing Up Is Hard to Do," in Newsweek, Vol. CXXV, No. 13, March 27, 1995, p. 68.

In the following review, Marin favorably assesses Leyner's collection of short stories, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog, praising its comical and satiric elements.

Mark Leyner isn't the best-selling writer in America, but he may be the buffest. With just 135 pounds on his 5-foot-7 frame, the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe can bench-press 220 without breaking a sweat. He's a little guy who goes to the gym to get huge, even though fiction is where Leyner does all his heaviest lifting.

His new book, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog is a willfully random collection of magazine humor pieces, lunatic ravings and one-liners composed "while listening to Mahler in the afternoon." In a brief three-pager called "The (Illustrated) Body Politic," Leyner conducts a mock-investigative report on tattoos worn by U...