"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"