His stories are generally humorous and absurd, with bizarre juxtapositions of people, places and things reminiscent of a Mad Lib.

At the sentence level, Leyner uses sprawling imagery and an extravagant vocabulary, bordering on prose poetry.

Leyner has also worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and as a writer for the MTV program Liquid Television.

Leyner also studied with noted post-modern author Steve Katz at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

[2] In the mid-to-late 2000s, Leyner collaborated with Dr. Billy Goldberg on three humorous, though fact-based, books on medicine.