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