Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker...Highly recommended." --Library Journal "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." --Ivan Gold, New York Times Book Review "Here is an imaginative and engaging writer who breaks all the conventions of contemporary fiction with a certain devilish relish." --Robin Hemley, Another Chicago Magazine "Disingenuous confessions of the writer's ineptitude are suffused with the appealing confessional anxiety of a small-time writer scrabbling against odds." --Jaimy Gordon, American Book Review