Having just read "It's a Slippery Slope" all I can do is ache for Ramona, who was betrayed and abandoned for a younger, fertile woman. And how could Kathie just allow this man back into her life after he begged her to abort the child, dumped her, wasn't there for the birth or the first 8 months of the child's life? This piece wasn't sexy, it was just sad. Wonder how that kid feels when he reads about how his dad delayed meeting him for the first time because he wanted to bang the mother?
--LP
04/10 |
Oh, jesus christ.
self idulgent old man. You are very lucky.
I'm a self-indulgent young woman, and I haven't been so lucky.
--ggg
03/15 |
Wow !
--LK
03/15 |
I don't know who Spalding Gray is but I really liked this piece.
--ELM
03/14 |
Not his best work by far. I know he's gone, but it's true.
--mr
03/13 |
Suicide is always dreadful, sad and unnerving. Until I met my true love, I drank in bars for years after work, always hoping I would meet the woman of my dreams, even if she was the barmaid (bartenderette, barperson, what?). Even when I had a girlfriend I would end up in a strip club fantasizing a sexcapade with a dancer who had one goal that night--to take home a wad of bills minus me. Bad things happen to good people and I guess the awful head on car wreck finally did the poor man in.
--MVS
03/12 |
A joy to read, a sorrow to contemplate, a bittersweet epitaph to mark a magnificent and complicated life.
--LAS
03/10 |
I agree. I love Spalding Gray's voice, but I find this piece, right now, unsettling at best. There's something supremely discomforting about the last clause..." the family man" Yeah, but things change. What's upsetting is that things can change so much for one person: marriage, divorce, marriage, baby, accident, depression, suicide. And swirling around all of that, there's nothing anyone can do when she is a casuatlty of such change. Reading a piece of writing like this isn't consolation about the knowledge of some great talent; it's more a backward glimpse of what must have been - not only in the last few years - one man's tremendously difficult existence. cla
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03/10 |
This is too weird for me to read. Bad karma.
--MJ
03/10 |
RIP Spal, gonna miss you.
--jmj
03/10 |
isn't Spalding Gray dead? Lost to the Hudson River his body found floating this week?
--AV
03/10 |
intrigue, me or you....but offer some insight as to you...your ??//>.....i'll get back to you....when
i'm ready..............
--gus
03/10 |
this is a text
--kp
01/30 |
Definitely a narrative I would like to have written. Aldo Mattos (Brazil) - amattos@svn.com.br
--ADM
12/24 |
Regarding the last few sentences of your piece: Your private self? What private self? You've made your life pretty public it's rather tacky.
--CCH
11/10 |
ive been a fan of spalding gray's work for over 10 years now and am THRILLED to find a new, fresh article written by this very talented, gifted, funny and thought provoking artist. Please keep publishing for a long time to come. A new article or book is a welcome suprise every time. What i'd like to ask is if mr. gray is still performing and if he has any plans to come to MN soon.
--BH
10/09 |
I've seen Spalding Gray in Ann Arbor, reading from his works, and I was delighted to find his essay here! IMHO the previous poster misses the point entirely...he's writing about what he knows...his experiences...they may not be the ones the poster would choose to live through...but he does a wonderful job of expressing himself...and I never miss a chance to read his work...He's not bragging!...he's sharing...and he obviously does it quite well or there would not be a call for his work. Thanks
--LS
08/06 |
Tonight is the first time I've found this link. I am 52 years old and on my second marriage. I found this article very entertaining and could relate.
--NR
09/07 |
Just when I thought I might like Spalding Gray again [maybe he's not a self-indulgent aging preppie asshole], I read his "The Late Blooming of a Monogamist." It's much, much [much] more than I ever wanted to know about Gray's personal life and hotel hijinks. I have a question for Mr. Gray. Whatever happened to your other wife, the Ramona you cavalierly mention early in your article and then forget. Got rid of her because your seed didn't take? IMO, she's the lucky one. I hope Kathie is enjoying her life with three little boys.
--JR
09/03 |
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