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"Dear Brain" coming soon
A March 24 article in the Phoenix Jewish News that quotes me on Philip Roth's early work
Here's a review of the 2005 book by Wesleyan professor Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, "A World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism," which discusses my "famous 1979 story" about Hitler.
This is a link to a Usenet posting by an irate animal rights activist who took seriously my 1995 organization Giraffe Hunters of America, founded in response to Newt Gingrich's comment that men were "biologically driven to hunt giraffes"; reprints article
Just found this: apparently I'm commenting on a 1994 case involving a lesbian being fired for entering into a Jewish commitment ceremony, an 11th Circuit opinion which was later overturned by the full circuit court (as opposed to the three-judge panel) an
Newsletter on American Politics from 1996 says U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Miami) "should have little trouble defeating independent Richard Grayson." Since I got only 8 votes, I guess they were prescient.
Neil Simon: A Casebook, edited by Gary Konas, has my only attempt at something pseudo-scholarly, "'The Fruit Brigade': Neil Simon's Gay Characters." (You can tell it's supposedly scholarly because of the colon in the article's title.)
Order my exciting "Legal Issues for the Design and Implementation of a Technology-Assisted System of Education: 1994-95 Memoranda" published by the state of Florida
For The People, newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, mentions my story "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog"
Excerpts and comments on my letter to the NY Times about housing homeless families in the Bronx House of Detention
In 2000, I got 3 write-in votes for U.S. Senator from Volusia County, FL -- one less than "Nikki O."
An Italian document on computer education which quotes something I wrote when I was a staff attorney at the Center for Governmental Responsibility. I didn't know till I saw this that I could write in Italian. Yeah, right.
American Book Review issue: Jaimy Gordon reviews "I Brake Delmore Schwartz," "Eating at Arby's"and "Disjointed Fictions" by Richard Grayson
American Book Review issue: "Irony and/​or Authenticity": Tyrus Miller reviews "I Survived Caracas Traffic: Stories from the Me Decades" by Richard Grayson
American Book Review issue with "Defiant on Thin Ice": Henry Grinberg reviews "The Silicon Valley Diet" by Richard Grayson
American Book Review issue with my review of Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent, edited by Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell
AP story on Hitler in fiction, mentioning "With Hitler in New York"
Santa Monica Mirror thing mentioning my reading at the Midnight Special bookstore in June 2001
Japanese readers can now buy The Silicon Valley Diet (I think)
This is a DOC file. About two dozen letters to the editor published in the New York TImes since 1980 (70.0KB)
iBookDB -- the Internet Book DataBase
The Celebrity Cafe

Selected Works

Quick Links

"Why I Joined the POD People" at The Quarterly Conversation (June 2008)
"Are You Cool Enough to Blurb This Book?" at Gawker (April 2008)
Remembering MLK's Assassination at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (April 2008)
My 1970 New York Politics Pics (March 2008)
Review of Joshua Henkin's "Matrimony" at The Quarterly Conversation (March 2008)
"Arizona Makes It Easy to Run for President" in Arizona Republic (January 2008)
Interviewed by Tom DeMarchi at Florida Book Review (January 2008)
"A Penny Saved" at Six Little Things (December 2007)
"Disappearing Dutch Brooklyn" at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (November 2007)
"Exploring Brooklyn by Bus: the B35 from Brownsville to Sunset Park" at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (November 2007)
"Broadway, June 1987" at Tuesday Shorts (September 2007)
"A Conversation with Richard Grayson" at Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (October 2007)
Brooklyn Lit Life interview at The Written Nerd (September 2007)
Coverage of summer New York City literary events at Syntax of Things (July-August 2007)
"Five blogs that would be on my blogroll if I only had a blog" at Syntax of Things (July 2007)
"Exploring Brooklyn by Bus: the B100 to the Wilds of Mill Basin" at MySpace (July 2007)
"Exploring Brooklyn by Bus: the B24, the Brooklyn Boomerang, Williamsburg to Greenpoint via Queens" at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (July 2007)
"Exploring Brooklyn by Bus: the B68 down Coney Island Avenue's Highway of Tolerance" at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (July 2007)
"The 1972 Democratic National Convention: An Account" in Rouse Magazine (July 2004)
Podcast of "With Hitler in New York" at TothWorld (July 2007)
Review of Anne Fadiman's "At Large & At Small: Familiar Essays" at The Quarterly Conversation (June 2007)
"Queries" at Red Fez (June 2007)
"Conquering the Florida Bar Exam" in Broadly Speaking (March 2003, pages 12-16)
"Bread Loaf Diary, 1977: Part One" at Return of the Reluctant (May 2007)
"Bread Loaf Diary, 1977: Part Two" at Return of the Reluctant (May 2007)
"Window on Main Street" at Return of the Reluctant (May 2007)
"Eu Tenho 55 Anos e não Tenho Plano de Saude e Acabei de ser Despedido" at 3:AM Brasil (May 2007)
"An Appropriated Story" at DecomP (March 2007)
"I'm 55 and Have No Health Insurance and I Just Got Fired" at 3:AM (March 2007)
"Fictional Innovations of the Ford Administration" at Cerebral Catalyst (February 2007)
"This Person Is Already Your Friend" at 3:AM Magazine (February 2007)
"The Life of Katz" at High Contrast (January 2007)
"Sixteen Attempts to Justify My Existence" at High Contrast (December 2006)
"Twelve Step Barbie" at Best Modern Fiction (December 2006)
Interview with Rob Waller on Words of You (October 2006)
"Five Easy Questions" interview with Jason Boog at The Publishing Spot (August 2006)
"My Seventies Stories" at Storyglossia (August 2006)
"G-d Is My Fuckbuddy" at Opium (August 2006)
"My Stolen Maverick" at 55 Words (August 2006)
"My First Day in Fun City" at NOO Journal (June 2006)
"With Hitler in New York" (originally published in 1978) at Reader of Depressing Books (May 2006)
"The First Earth Day" at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (April 2006)
"Rapscallion Days" at The Angler (April 2006)
"Dr. Patel's Planets" at Eclectica (April 2006)
"Little Did They Know..." at Six Little Things (March 2006)
"La Difficulte d'Etre" at VerbSap (March 2006)
"Rampant Burping, 1970" at Juked (March 2006)
"Melissa and the Good Legislator" at Apogee (March 2006)
Letter in New York Observer on Fulton Street Mall (February 2006)
"It Was Thirty Years Ago Today" at Fiction Warehouse (January 2006)
A letter to Book Biz Santa at M.J. Rose's Buzz, Balls & Hype (December 2005)
"Two Totally True Tales Featuring the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Cupid" at Barrelhouse (December 2005)
"My Twelfth Twelfth Story Story" at Wandering Army (December 2005)
"Let the Reader Beware" at Hobart (December 2005)
"69 Reasons to Date My Aunt Aisha" in Thieves Jargon (November 2005)
My grocery list at Unpleasant Event Schedule (November 2005)
"Schmuck Brothers of East Harlem" at Apogee (November 2005)
"Moratorium: Peace March 1969" at Hackwriters (November 2005)
"A Wake in One Zone" at Mosaic Minds (November 2005)
"And To Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street" at JMWW (September 2005)
"Alternative Abuses for the Yarmulke" at Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (September 2005)
"Unobtrusive Methods, Inchoate Designs" at HackWriters (September 2005)
"A December 19, 1974 Letter to My Friend in Germany That She Gave Back to Me in Arizona the Morning After Her Fiftieth Birthday Party 29 Years Later" in Journal of Modern Post (August 2005)
"Land of Golden Giants" at FRiGG (July 2005)
"Sylvia Ginsberg, Superstar" at Identity Theory (May 2005)
"The Boy Who Fell to Brooklyn" at Mangrove (May 2005)
"Oranges and Apples" at Write This (May 2005)
"Hey Jude" at Pindeldyboz (May 2005)
"The Best Rosh Hashanah Ever" at Mississippi Review (April 2005)
"What They Did That Winter" at Mosaic Minds (March 2005)
"Vampires of Northwest Arkansas" at VerbSap (February 2005)
"Three Scenes From My Life (With Special Guest Star Truman Capote)" at Me Three (January 2005)
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Citicorp" at Cautionary Tale (January 2005)
"Mark the Public Notices" at Storymania (January 2005)
"Horsing Around in Politics" at Low Blue Flame (2001)
"Significant Others, Circa 1976" at The Shore (December 2004)
"Victory Boulevard" at Dreamvirus (December 2004)
"Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District" at McSweeney's (May-November 2004)
"Babysitting Laurence Fishburne" at Magazine Shiver (December 2004)
"Me and Mr. Starr" at The Edward Society (November 2004)
"I Survived Caracas Traffic" at Melange (November 2004)
"One Sentence Story" at Monkeybicycle (December 2004)
"98.6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon" at Really Small Talk (December 2004)
"My Life in the New York Post" at Monkeybicycle.net (September 2004)
"Heat of the Moment" at The Quarterly Staple (October 2004)
"Forgotten Movie Screens of Broward County" at 3711 Atlantic (September 2004)
"Dumping the Hump in Chicago" at Rouse Magazine (September 2004)
"They Don't Make Nostalgia Like They Used To" at Small Spiral Notebook (August 2004)
"Seven Sitcoms" at Edifice WRECKED (August 2004)
"Branch Libraries of Southeastern Brooklyn" at Fiction Warehouse (August 2004)
"A Women's Lib Day Letter to My Friend in National Guard Basic Training" in The Journal of Modern Post (August 2004)
"The Boy Who Could Draw Dr. King" at FRiGG (July 2004)
"Seven Men Who Made Me Happy" at Mississippi Review (July 2004)
"The Lost Movie Theaters of Southeastern Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach" at Eyeshot (April 2004)
"Mohammad's Therapy Monkey" at Rouse (July 2004)
Writers & Artists Remake 14 Films: "Superfly" at Low Blue Flame (July 2004)
"Presidential Snapshots" at Pindeldyboz (June 2004)
"Naming a New Cabinet" at Uber (May 2004)
"If Conselyea Street Could Talk" at Me Three (May 2004)
"Albertson's Pulls Out of New Orleans" at Spillway Review (April 2004)
"Ban Bra Burning" at Maladapted (April 2004)
"Diary of a Brooklyn Cyclones Hot Dog" at Hobart (April 2004)
"Bottom, Front Page, New York Times, Tiny Print" at Surgery of Modern Warfare (March 2004)
"The Cool Guy" at Cautionary Tale (March 2004)
"Great Moments in Panty Hose Jurisprudence" at Yankee Pot Roast (March 2004)
"Dear Stephen Riggio" at Uber (February 2004)
"Annoyingly Inconvenient Cell Phone Dead Zones I Have Encountered" at Uber (February 2004)
"Telecommunication" at Really Small Talk (February 2004)
"I Love Scrushy" at Yankee Pot Roast (January 2004)
"Girl With Pearl Drops Toothpaste" at Yankee Pot Roast (January 2004)
"What About Us Grils?" in Gargoyle (1979)
Read a 1981 interview with me in Gargoyle Magazine
"Disjointed Fictions" (1981)
includes "A Disjointed Fiction," "Inside Barbara Walters," "Progress," "Escape from the Planet of the Humans" and "17 Fragments in Search of a Story"
"Eating At Arby's: The South Florida Stories" (1982)
"Rules of Civil Procedure" (1992)
"Professional Worrier Wanted" on The 365 Project (2003)
"Those Old Dark Sweet Songs" in Pug Magazine (1997)
"Spaghetti Language" in The Blue Moon Quarterly (1997)
"Anything But Sympathy" in 12-Gauge Review (1998)
"Boys Club" in Blithe House Quarterly (1998)
"The Five Stages of Eating at Cuban-Chinese Restaurants" in Red Booth Review (1999)
"Anita Hill at the Roller Derby" (2000)
"Mysteries of Ranch Management" in Rio (1999)
"The Silicon Valley Diet" in Blithe House Quarterly (2000)
"Life With Libby" in Blithe House Quarterly (2002)
Buy "With Hitler in New York" at Backinprint.com
Buy "I Brake for Delmore Schwartz" at Amazon.com
Buy "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog" at BarnesandNoble.com
Red Hen Press, publisher of The Silicon Valley Diet
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