The View from Mill Basin

ROLLING STONE called 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. Grayson's other short story collections have also received acclaim. LIBRARY JOURNAL called LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG (1982) excellent and said of I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1983) that Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker. 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; THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reviewing AND TO THINK THAT HE KISSED HIM ON LORIMER STREET (2006) said Grayson has a fresh funny voice. Grayson has kept a diary since 1969. This volume covers the first half of 1977.