Mark Leach

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, punk zines, and the American frontier.

MARIENBAD MY LOVE

"...a remarkable project that rebelliously pushes against the conceptual, temporal, and physical boundaries of the codex novel." - Bradley J. Fest, author and college English professor

WOUNDED TACO

"Boldly strange and undeniably committed to its vision..." - Kirkus Reviews

"Leach’s vision is both inane and profound, and thoroughly hallucinogenic..." - Greg Sapp, author of the “Holidazed” satires

CUTTING UP TWO BURROUGHS

"...a hybrid result, whose lysergic rambling almost implies that poetry itself represents a kind of robotic writing, generated from an 'ape-man' on drugs." - Christian Bok, poet and college English professor