A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!

Mark Leyner is the author of the novels and collections I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories (1983); My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990); Et Tu, Babe (1992); Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog (1996); The Tetherballs of Bougainville (1998); The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack (2012); Gone With the Mind (2016); and Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit (2021). His nonfiction includes the #1 New York Times bestseller Why Do Men Have Nipples?, and he cowrote the movie War, Inc. 
 

In 2005 Rick Kisonak launched the Burlington Book Festival and served as its Founding Director until 2020. He was the publisher of Burlington Magazine for two decades and, over the course of 40 years, rose to become a respected voice in the fields of media and film criticism. Featuring a signature mix of insight and humor, his work has appeared in publications and outlets such as Salon, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Film Threat and Games Magazine. A longtime member of the prestigious Critics Choice Association, Kisonak hosted the popular entertainment programs Art Patrol, on Vermont’s NBC affiliate WPTZ-TV, and Screen Time with Rick Kisonak, for Mountain Lake PBS in New York. For twenty years he wrote movie reviews for the weekly newspaper Seven Days. Rick lives in South Burlington, Vermont with his wife, daughter and the nagging suspicion that things might have been different if he’d lived in a major market.