In 1990, following the publication of his extraordinary first novel, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, Mark Leyner was hailed by the New York Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone etc as "the cult author of the 1990s." Tragically for Leyner—but luckily for the rest of us—the acclaim and publicity were too much for the young author, irreparably losing his grip on reality. Et Tu Babe is the hilarious product of Mark Leyner's ensuing megalomania and his outrageous delusions of grandeur.