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I Brake for Delmore Schwartz

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 99 pages

File Size : 35,41 MB

Release : 2005-04

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ISBN : 0595345298

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"Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker Highly recommended." -Library Journal "Grayson's stories are full on insanity, nutty therapists, cancerous relatives, broken homes, fiction workshops, youthful theatricals at Catskill bungalow colonies and the morbid wizardry of telephone answering machines." -Ivan Gold, New York Times Book Review "Here is an imaginative and engaging writer who breaks all the conventions of contemporary fiction with a certain devilish relish." -Robin Hemley, Another Chicago Magazine "Disingenuous confessions of the writer's ineptitude are suffused with the appealing confessional anxiety of a small-time writer scrabbling against odds." -Jaimy Gordon, American Book Review





West Eighth Street

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 12,35 MB

Release : 2014-03-10

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 130491805X

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Richard Grayson's diaries from August 1969 to June 1977 were published in eleven previous volumes. WEST EIGHTH STREET covers the second half of 1977, when the author has a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and returns to New York to make his way writing, publishing and teaching amid a tumultuous year in the city.



The View from Mill Basin

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 48,52 MB

Release : 2014-02-18

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1304882616

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ROLLING STONE called Grayson's first short story collection, WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, published in 1979, "where avant-garde fiction goes when it becomes stand-up comedy," and NEWSDAY said, "The reader is dazzled by the swift, witty goings-on." Grayson's other short story collections have also received acclaim. LIBRARY JOURNAL called LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG (1982) "excellent" and said of I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1983) that "Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW said Grayson's I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC (1996) was "entertaining and bizarre" and "consistently, even ingeniously funny." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY called Grayson's THE SILICON VALLEY DIET (2000) "compulsively talky and engagingly disjunctive"; THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, reviewing AND TO THINK THAT HE KISSED HIM ON LORIMER STREET (2006), said, "Grayson has a fresh, funny voice." Grayson has kept a diary since 1969. This volume covers the first half of 1977.



Beach Channel Drive

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 18,34 MB

Release : 2014-06-24

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 131227333X

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Richard Grayson has been keeping a daily diary compulsively since the summer of 1969, when he was an 18-year-old agoraphobic about to venture out into the world - or at least the world around him in Brooklyn. His diary, approximately 600 words a day without missing a day since August 1, 1969, now totals over 9 million words, rivaling the longest diaries ever written. But Grayson is not merely an eccentric with graphomania. His nonfiction has appeared in PEOPLE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK POST and numerous other periodicals. Excerpts from his diaries have appeared online at McSWEENEY'S and THOUGHT CATALOG. ROLLING STONE called Grayson's first short story collection, WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, published in 1979, "where avant-garde fiction goes when it becomes stand-up comedy," and NEWSDAY said, "The reader is dazzled by the swift, witty goings-on." BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE covers the first half of 1980, when Grayson is struggling n New York.



Wanderyear

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : Richard Grayson

Page : 577 pages

File Size : 41,14 MB

Release : 2013-02-16

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 130049655X

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Richard Grayson has been keeping a daily diary compulsively since the summer of 1969, when he was an 18-year-old agoraphobic about to venture out into the world - or at least the world around him in Brooklyn. His diary, approximately 600 words a day without missing a day since August 1, 1969, now totals over 9 million words, rivaling the longest diaries ever written. But Grayson is not merely an eccentric with graphomania. His books of short stories have been praised in reviews by ROLLING STONE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, LIBRARY JOURNAL and BEST SELLERS. Grayson's nineteenth compilation of diary entries, WANDERYEAR, takes place between mid-1997 and mid-1998, when he quits his job as a staff attorney in social policy at a University of Florida law school think tank to move from place to place - South Florida, Brooklyn, Silicon Valley, Wyoming, Long Island, New Orleans, and suburban Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.







Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : Richard Grayson

Page : 123 pages

File Size : 46,74 MB

Release : 2005-10

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1411653920

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Originally published online as a regular feature on the McSweeney's Internet Tendency website, Richard Grayson's diary chronicles the hopeless 2004 campaign of an emo-loving vegetarian short story writer against a right-wing incumbent in Florida's most Republican congressional district. With his support of socialized medicine, abortion on demand, gay marriage and immediate withdrawal from Iraq anathema to most of his conservative constituency, Grayson jokes his way through a quixotic campaign to capture the hearts and minds of the minority of North Florida voters who possess those organs. For now you can download the entire book by clicking on Preview.



Autumn in Gainesville

Author : Richard Grayson

Publisher : Richard Grayson

Page : 253 pages

File Size : 17,4 MB

Release : 2012-07-31

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1105823660

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Richard Grayson has been keeping a daily diary compulsively since the summer of 1969, when he was an 18-year-old agoraphobic about to venture out into the world -- or at least the world around him in Brooklyn. His diary, approximately 600 words a day without missing a day since August 1, 1969, now totals over 9 million words, rivaling the longest diary ever written. Grayson's seventeenth compilation of diary entries, AUTUMN IN GAINESVILLE, alternates among the three fall seasons he worked as a staff attorney in social policy at University of Florida law school think tank. Taking place from 1994 to 1996, Grayson's diary chronicles his adventures as a legal researcher, college instructor, gay rights activist, candidate for Congress and columnist for New Jersey Online. Working for a education project called Schoolyear 2000 and one of the first experiments in web-based journalism projects, Grayson moves into his mid-40s and finds himself surprised with a book contract for a new collection of short stories.