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Mark Leach

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Mark Leach is the author of Marienbad My Love, an experimental novel of more than 17 million words, recognized as one of the longest novels ever written. His work blends literary collage, surreal comedy, science fiction, metafiction, cultural criticism, and fragmented autobiography.

His works explore authorship, media, memory, American myth, alien visitation, damaged cowboys, broken broadcasts, and the strange machinery of narrative itself.

Influenced by writers such as Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, William S. Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, and J. G. Ballard, Leach writes in a tradition of radical literary experiment while drawing from Texas history, pulp fiction, television, conspiracy culture, ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 24 ratings · 3 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Marienbad My Love 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cutting Up Two Burroughs 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#EMPIREFILM it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wounded Taco it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paragraphs On Postconceptual Writing: A Novel liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Through John Cage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marienbad My Love: Vol. 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SCUW Womanifesto 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marienbad My Love: Vol. 8 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kirkus Reviews called WOUNDED TACO “a strange and deeply self-aware literary experiment…” and described it as “a nonlinear, recursive broadcast system rather than a plot-driven narrative…”

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Not because the review is an unqualified celebration. It isn’t. Not because Kirkus suddenly decided to join my personal war against handmade slop, conventional fiction, literary good manners, plot ob Read more of this blog post »

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Mark Leach made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — WOUNDED TACO by Mark Leach topic " The following information is required when requesting a book be added: * Title: WOUNDED TACO * Author(s) name(s): MARK LEACH * ISBN (or ASIN): 9781105473 ...more "
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Welcome to "Marienbad My Love." I assembled this multi-million-word, multi-volume work through calculation and chance. It consists of fragments of pre-existing texts both written and appropriated by me over the course of 30-plus years. I like to thin ...more
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