This is my question about a book

November 16, 2006 6:45 AM

In David Foster Wallace's essay “E Unibus Plurum" he references a book with Gastro in the title, and likens it to "televisual Image Fiction." What's the full name? Is it worth reading?
posted by plexi to media & arts (4 comments total)

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 6:48 AM on November 16, 2006

It's available here. It's interesting, and can be funny, but hoo boy his style gets old quickly. Don't read more than one Leyner book a year.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 6:49 AM on November 16, 2006

"I really, really liked it. It's like nothing else. I laughed out loud in the bathroom." -- David Byrne

How are you not yet sold?
posted by rokusan at 6:56 AM on November 16, 2006

Don't read more than one Leyner book a year.

And don't read more than one Leyner piece a month. His shtick really doesn't wear well.
posted by languagehat at 8:53 AM on November 16, 2006