Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker...Highly recommended.<I> --Library Journal</I>Grayson's stories are full on insanity nutty therapists cancerous relatives broken homes fiction workshops youthful theatricals at Catskill bungalow colonies and the morbid wizardry of telephone answering machines. <I>--Ivan Gold New York Times Book Review</I>Here is an imaginative and engaging writer who breaks all the conventions of contemporary fiction with a certain devilish relish. <I>--Robin Hemley Another Chicago Magazine</I>Disingenuous confessions of the writer's ineptitude are suffused with the appealing confessional anxiety of a small-time writer scrabbling against odds. <I>--Jaimy Gordon American Book Review</I>