The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
A Novel

"The phrase 'sugar frosted nutsack' occurs 3,385 times in The Sugar Frosted Nutsack (including this sentence)." Ya know, I didn't fact-check that or anything, but I really don't doubt it. This book, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, is really not The Sugar Frosted Nutsack that it claims to be on its surface.......more

'Tis a book of opposites. Intellectual and low-brow. Erudite and juvenile. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is in-your-face postmodernism and self-referential to the max. Reminded me, in some ways, of a book by Goodreads author and infamous Scottish whippersnapper MJ Nichols. If you are new to Leyner and h......more

3.5 stars rounded up for the sake of audacity and originality -- and the excitement/expectation/military-grade Gravy-like ecstasy I felt with my hands on a new Mark Leyner novel after a 15-year absence. I didn't mind that it's a looping, recursive epic, with excruciating redundancies, heavy-handed,......more

When the spotty and poorly sexed Scotch yokel M.J. Nicholls self-published his first novel A Postmodern Belch in the same year as Mark Leyner published A Sugar Frosted (sic) Nutsack (sic) with an internationally impressive publisher, no one could have foreseen the calamitous literary collision that......more

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) It would not be off the mark to call Mark Leyner the "King of the Bizarro Authors," given that he is one of......more