Richard Grayson

From Pete Anderson (Pete Lit): "[Richard] Grayson is a veteran short story writer who is a master of first-person narrative, deadpan humor and inventive structure. Although he has published more than ten books, many of his earliest works are long out of print. He self-published his latest book, And To Think That He Kissed Him On Lorimer Street, a very fine story collection which he describes as 'part fictional memoir, part memorish fiction.' Grayson also recently self-published four of his early story chapbooks as a single volume titled Highly Irregular Stories. While the decision to self-publish is primarily his, as an effort to exert personal control over his work, it also reflects the publishing world's inexplicable shunning of his iconoclastic talent."

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+  {Editor's note:  As you can see by all of the other entries in this project, we usually try to link to several items relating to each author.  In this case, all I need to do is link to Grayson's home page where you can find pretty much anything and everything you need to know about him.  Be sure to stop by, drop him a note, and by all means, buy one of his books.}

Comments

[Anne]

I'm happy to see Richard nominated. I recently wrote about fending off my daughter's requests for Barbie on my blog &, days later, Richard left a copy of _I Survived Caracas Traffic_ in my mailbox. I haven't read the whole book, but his (widely anthologized) story, "Twelve Step Barbie" is terrific and hilarious.