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Monologist Spalding Gray on Writing, Performing, and Digressions

Gray has a new piece called Monster in a Box, about the wending process of writing an as-yet unpublished, 1600 page novel, titled Impossible Vacations. He says that his autobiographical writing distances him from his real life, including his experience of pleasure.

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Other segments from the episode on September 21, 1990

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, September 21, 1990: Interview with Spalding Gray; Review of Virgil Thomson's album "Portraits and Self-Portraits"; Interview with Jeff Goldblum; Review of the television…

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