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  • Talker #5: Spalding Gray with Kathy Acker

    by Giles Bailey, Spalding Gray, Kathy Acker ...
    Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #5 is a transcript of an event hosted by the writer Kathy Acker at the ICA, London in February 1987 in which the performer Spalding Gray discussed his work.A founding member of the Wooster Group, Spalding Gray gained fame for his autobiographical monologue performances. At the time of this conversation, he had just completed ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swimming to Cambodia

    by Spalding Gray, James Leverett ...
    “It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Journals of Spalding Gray

    by Spalding Gray ...
    Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as Swimming to Cambodia.Here is the first intimate portrait we have of the man behind the charismatic performer who ended his life in 2004: evolving artist, conflicted celebrity, a man ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Impossible Vacation

    by Spalding Gray ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Having detailed the agonies of writing a book in his monologue Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray now gives us the monster itself: a convulsively funny, unexpectedly moving novel about a man eternally searching for a moment of protected pleasure even as he is permanently incapable of finding it.Brewster North witnesses his mother's madness but misses her suicide; searches frantically for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Monster in a Box

    by Spalding Gray ...
    For some time now, writer-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray has been carrying around with him a monster: a manuscript of a novel called Impossible Vacation, a book that at last sighting weighed in at about 1,800 pages. Monster in a Box is a guided tour between the stations of his writing block, which include a field trip to Nicaragua, a disastrous guest appearance at the Moscow film festival, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Life Interrupted

    The Unfinished Monologue

    by Spalding Gray ...
    As the first decade of the new century was getting underway, Spalding Gray worried that the joy he’d finally found with his wife, stepdaughter, and two sons would fail to fuel his work as a theatrical monologist the way anxiety, conflict, doubt, and various crises once had. Before he got the chance to find out, however, an automobile accident in Ireland left him with the lasting wounds of body and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gray's Anatomy

    by Spalding Gray ...
    In middle age Spalding Gray has entered "the Bermuda Triangle of Health," that place where the body begins to break down in alarming and humiliating ways. His immediate problem is an eye complaint that could be corrected with minor surgery. But for the high priest of high anxiety, nothing is ever minor. And so Gray embarks on a crazed crusade for wellness that takes him from a Native American ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Undiscovered Chekhov

    Forty-Three New Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic collection presents 38 new stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master. In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s, when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sex and Death to the Age 14

    by Spalding Gray ...
    This is a collection of six monologues by the master of one-man drama. Included are "Sex and Death at the Age of 14," "Booze, Cars, and College Girls," "47 Beds," "Nobody Wanted to Sit Behind a Desk," "Travels through New England," and "Terror of Pleasure: The House." Also includes a preface by the author. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Life Interrupted

    The Unfinished Monologue

    by Spalding Gray ...
    Narrated by Sam Shepard ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 14 min

    Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004.Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001, which fractured his skull and crushed his hip. It sent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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