When Spalding Gray first arrived in New York City in 1959, it was to become a writer of great sprawling novels. He got sidetracked into the theater for 30 years until one day his literary agent said, I think you've got a novel inside you. Instead of elective surgery, Spalding sat down to write if he could, or pace floors in different cities plumbing the depths of writer's block if he couldn't. In this recording, Gray, now one of America's premiere monologists, performs Monster in a Box, the story of one man's struggle against publication, the writing of a 1900-page manuscript that became the much smaller Impossible Vacation. Gray recounts the horrors of putting one word after another, and another, and another...
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"About the trials of writing Impossible Vacation, which I forgot is a novel because it isn't. And it doesn't need to be, because he's found his niche as a an autobiographical storyteller. " — Kate (4 out of 5 stars)
"About the trials of writing Impossible Vacation, which I forgot is a novel because it isn't. And it doesn't need to be, because he's found his niche as a an autobiographical storyteller. "
" My wife recommended this to me when I was suffering with writers block. I liked the book, it didn't help my writers block though. "
" I love Spalding Gray's monologues. This book is good, but not as good as the movie where you see him actually perform the monologue. Might be better off Netflixing the movie. "
" This British author, Ruth Rendell has written a series of Inspec tor Wexford Novels and this is detailed, easy to get into and fun to read as the details give lots of clues. "
" Read this and rent the movies. "
" I think maybe I give his monologue five stars and the book less. I love this guy, wish he were still with us. He was a Rhode Islander. "
" Matt had Spalding Gray sign this book in 1999 when we stumbled across a book signing in LA. Now I feel motivated to read more of his monologues. "
" The companion piece, of sorts, to Gray's novel Impossible Vacation (which I think is a complete waste of time), this is my favorite transcription of one of his monologues. "
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