Spalding Gray, Author . Crown $19.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4861-8
Perhaps best known for his first theatrical monologue, 1985's Swimming to Cambodia
(which later became a surprisingly successful film, directed by Jonathan Demme), Gray followed Cambodia
with many more autobiographical performances, including...
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Spalding Gray, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (96p) ISBN 978-0-679-75178-6
Anyone who can imagine monologuist Gray's voice--ironic, neurotic, bemused by the world--will enjoy this new performance piece. In previous monologues, such as Swimming to Cambodia , Gray raided his own life, but this digs deeper, exploring his...
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Spalding Gray, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-74523-5
Protagonist Brewster North careens from Provincetown to the Himalayas searching for Eden in this work of darkly comic performance art on the page, executed with great elan by acclaimed monologuist Gray. (May)
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Spalding Gray, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-52523-1
In Swimming to Cambodia, Gray wove his insights on war into his account of the making of The Killing Fields; in Gray's Anatomy, his thoughts on the body and dying were linked with his search for a cure to his eye trouble. It was during the tour for...
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Spalding Gray, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (228p) ISBN 978-0-394-56894-2
The acclaimed monologist and author of Swimming to Cambodia , Sex and Death to the Age 14 and Monster in a Box (which concerned the writing of this novel), Gray once again proves that his art is his life. The quest for Eden (or is it nirvana?)...
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Spalding Gray, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-29985-9
A portrait of the artist as bemused dad, this account of a day in the life of the Gray family is by turns funny, meditative and self-absorbed. Gray (Swimming to Cambodia, etc.) may say he is ""really no good at making up stories,"" but he is...
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Edited by Nell Casey. Knopf, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 9780307273451%C2%A0
These selections from the journals of actor and monologist Spalding Gray span the late 60s through his untimely death in 2004, providing a fascinating glimpse into his psyche, personal life, and how he approached his work. The cast includes Gray's...
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Spalding Gray, Author, Sam Shepard, Read by, Francine Prose, Foreword by , read by Sam Shepard. Audio Renaissance $214.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-792-4
Monologist and writer Gray committed suicide in 2004 after a protracted bout with mental illness. Before he died, he had been at work on Life Interrupted
, a monologue about the aftermath of a horrific car accident he suffered while traveling in...
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