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Books by Spalding Gray
(alphabetized by title)
1) First Words - Audio
Literature, 1996
- i have no idea what this is
- reader input please
2) Gray's Anatomy - Paperback
- 1993
- very funny tour of alternative
medicine when Spalding develops eye problems - also made into film - prophetic
in a way, given Spalding's car accident year's later. See also hardback
edition by Running Press Books
3) High & Low /
Modern Art and Popular Culture / Six Evenings of New York: Museum of Modern
Art / MOMA, 1990. Performance
Goldberg, RoseLee; with Two-page
Statements from Laurie Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Bongwater (Ann Magnuson&Kramer);
DavidCale; BrianEno;
SpaldingGray. Illustrated by
PhotographsThroughout
4) Homespun: Tales From America's
Favorite Storytellers (First Edition)
New York: Crown, 1988. Hardcover
Smith, Jimmy Neil (editor),
Spalding Gray, Ray Hicks, Elizabeth Ellis, Jackie Torrence, etc. (contributors)
5) Impossible Vacation
- 1992 - what can i say, except a must for spalding fans, and readily available.
Of the about 500 books by spalding at Abebooks,
just under half are copies of vacation.
i read this years ago and didn't
really think too much about it but now it still remains an influential
book to me.
6) It's a Slippery Slope
- 1997- Hardcover and trade
- despite my fear of skiing
(couldn't find an actual phobia, but fear of snow is chionophobia, and
skiophobia or sciophobia is fear of shadows), the story of Spalding making
big changes is wonderfully paralleled to that thing called skiing...
7) Monster in a Box -
1992 - Paperback & Hardcover
the only time i've seen Spalding
live, in vancouver - based on writing impossible vacation, a superb monologue...
8) Morning, Noon and Night
- 1999 - Paperback & Hardcover
- i believe this is the last
monologue in print to this moment. another monologue about the accident
and Spalding's recovery has been performed but not yet published
- this is really quintessential gray although the reaction of readers to
the truth of Spalding's maturity was i'd say mixed. i myself knew this
was a great book when i realized i no longer had to bicycle around sag
harbor...
9) The Nothing Issue -
Spalding Gray, Bern Porter, Ray Johnson, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Arakawa
& Madeline Gins - Benzene Editions, 1985.
The Nothing Issue of Benzene
Magazine is a collection of art and writing by about 45
10) Orchards - Mamet,
David; Guare, John; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich; Gray, Spalding; Wasserstein,
Wendy.
Orchards - i want this,
i want it a lot...i just got it!
11) In Search of the Monkey
Girl by Randall Levenson and Spalding Gray
- a must for anyone obsessed
with circus freaks as I am - Spalding travels with Levenson as he photographs
circus freaks - the treatment is very pro freak much as Todd Browning's
film Freaks...
- this book is very rare and
prices of $100 and more are common - i found one using the abebooks book
want search tool - i got it in fairly good shape for 5 bucks!
12) Seven Scenes from a Family
Album - Spalding Gary, 1981
- very rare, very expensive
13) Sex and Death To the Age
13 - 1986
- what can I say...one of the
finest of all my Spalding books - it was my introduction to Spalding -
i had previously been a Gray virgin - then i saw him on Letterman (1982)
when he was plugging this book - I read it and my life has never been the
same - now I didn't say better... and now i'm a spud head... a spuddie!
14) Swimming to Cambodia -
1985 - so this was published before sex and death?
- the book/monologue that Spalding
wrote about the movie (The Killing Fields) that he was in, that was made
into a film itself that made Spalding sort of famous. somewhere between
a cult hero and a hollywood celebrity... if you only read one book
by Mr. gray, read this and sex and death...
15) TRICYCLE: THE BUDDHIST
REVIEW FALL - 1991 - The Dalai Lama Interviewed by Spalding Gray
- an interview not to
be missed!!! also, on this web page as a link...
16) ok, so it's out of alphabetical
order!
There was another monologue about
to be performed - reportedly about the accident happened in Ireland
- called Black Spot (is this in written form or taped anywhere???)
NOTE THAT Life Interrupted
is
a new title for Black Spot
Life Interrupted
- the latest monologue about Spalding's accident and road of recovery -
first performed 2003 (?) - see schedule (hyperlink) for latest performances...
yet to be published... ((is this in written form or taped anywhere???)
Of special interest:
First Words - Audio Literature,
1996
High & Low / Modern Art
and Popular Culture / Six Evenings of New York: Museum of Modern Art /
MOMA, 1990.
Homespun: Tales From America's
Favorite Storytellers (First Edition) New York: Crown, 1988.
The Nothing Issue - Spalding
Gray, Bern Porter, Ray Johnson, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Arakawa &
Madeline Gins - Benzene Editions, 1985.
MONSTER IN A BOX - PLAYBILL -
JANUARY 1991 - VOL. 91 - No. 1 ~ $40.00 on bookfinders.com
LIFE INTERRUPTED - A WORK IN
PROGRESS - PROGRAMME - 2003 $210 (!!!) bookfinders.com
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