Lunch at Junior's

ROLLING STONE called Richard Grayson's first short story collection WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK published in 1979 where avant-garde fiction goes when it becomes stand-up comedy and NEWSDAY said The reader is dazzled by the swift witty goings-on. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW said Grayson's I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC (1996) was entertaining and bizarre and consistently even ingeniously funny. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY called Grayson's THE SILICON VALLEY DIET (2000) compulsively talky and engagingly disjunctive; and THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reviewing AND TO THINK THAT HE KISSED HIM ON LORIMER STREET (2006) said Grayson has a fresh funny voice. Grayson's diaries from August 1969 to December 1977 were published in a number of previous volumes. LUNCH AT JUNIOR'S covers the first half of 1978 when the 26-year-old author having published over fifty stories teaches college English classes in downtown Brooklyn and dreams about having his first book published.