Showing posts with label Gainesville Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gainesville Florida. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
Richard Grayson's "SPRING IN GAINESVILLE" Now Available as Trade Paperback or eBook at Amazon Kindle Store
This week Superstition Mountain Press published Richard Grayson's Spring in Gainesville. It is available in a 210-page trade paperback edition for $11.99, as well as an e-book published by Art Pants Company available at the Amazon Kindle store for 99 cents.
The promo stuff says in part,
Richard Grayson has been keeping a daily diary compulsively since the summer of 1969, when he was an 18-year-old agoraphobic about to venture out into the world -- or at least the world around him in Brooklyn. His diary, approximately 600 words a day without missing a day since August 1, 1969, now totals over 9 million words, rivaling the longest diaries ever written.
But Grayson is not merely an eccentric with graphomania. His nonfiction has appeared in PEOPLE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK POST and numerous other periodicals. ROLLING STONE called Grayson’s first short story collection, WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, published in 1979, “where avant-garde fiction goes when it becomes stand-up comedy,” and NEWSDAY said, “The reader is dazzled by the swift, witty goings-on.”
Grayson’s other short story collections have also received acclaim. LIBRARY JOURNAL called LINCOLN’S DOCTOR’S DOG (1982) “excellent” and said of I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1983) that “Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker.” THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW said Grayson’s I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC (1996) was “entertaining and bizarre” and “consistently, even ingeniously funny."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY called Grayson’s THE SILICON VALLEY DIET (2000) “compulsively talky and engagingly disjunctive”; KIRKUS DISCOVERIES termed Grayson “an audacious and wickedly smart comedic writer” in its review of HIGHLY IRREGULAR STORIES (2005); and THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, reviewing AND TO THINK THAT HE KISSED HIM ON LORIMER STREET (2006), said, “Grayson has a fresh, funny voice.”
Grayson’s sixteenth compilation of diary entries, SPRING IN GAINESVILLE, alternates among his three spring semesters as an over-40 law student at the University of Florida. Taking place from 1992 to 1994, and coming after FIRST FALL IN GAINESVILLE, Grayson's diary from his first semester of law school, SPRING IN GAINESVILLE gives the reader a unique, thoughtful and idiosyncratic perspective on the day-to-day process by which American attorneys are made.
Grayson has published the first six volumes of the diaries of his late teens and twenties as THE BROOKLYN DIARIES, featuring SUMMER IN BROOKLYN: 1969-1975; WINTER IN BROOKLYN: 1972-73; SPRING IN BROOKLYN, 1975; AUTUMN IN BROOKLYN, 1978; MORE SUMMERS IN BROOKLYN: 1976-1979; and A YEAR IN ROCKAWAY, 1980.
The second six volumes of his diaries have been published as THE EIGHTIES DIARIES, which include SOUTH FLORIDA WINTERS, 1981-1984; LATE SPRING IN SUNRISE, 1982; WEST SIDE SUMMERS, 1984-1987; INDIAN SUMMER: PARK SLOPE, 1985; SPRINGTIME IN LAUDERHILL, 1986; and EIGHTIES’ END: AUTUMN, 1987-1989.
SPRING IN GAINESVILLE: 1991-1994 is the fourth volume of THE NINETIES DIARIES, following SUMMER IN NEW YORK: 1990, LAST SUMMER IN ROCKAWAY: 1991, and FIRST FALL IN GAINESVILLE: 1991.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Friday Morning in Williamsburg: Conselyea Street After the Latest Snowstorm
This will be our last winter in New York. The last five winters have been hard for someone who spent the previous twenty-six winters in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Gainesville (go Gators), Phoenix or Silicon Valley -- but last one was really hard and this one has been worse. Here's Conselyea Street after our latest snowstorm. We're posting these pics mainly as a reminder to ourselves that we will not be missing Brooklyn come next January when we're living in a warm, snow-free place -- like our wonderful former neighbors two houses down.
No more shoveling for us after March! (Unless April is really, really weird.)
Thursday, December 12, 1996
Richard Grayson analyzes Morris v. Hill for the Human Rights Council of North Central Florida BULLETIN
Richard Grayson analyzes Morris v. Hill, (Alachua County, Fla. Nov. 22, 1996), Palm Beach Post, Nov. 24,1996 (applying Romer v. Evans and ruling unconstitutional anti-gay ballot measure) for the Human Rights Council of North Central Florida BULLETIN (December 1996).
Thursday, November 7, 1996
Richard Grayson on child custody and sexual orientation in the Human Rights Council of North Central Florida GUARDIAN
Richard Grayson analyzes legal developments involving child custody and sexual orientation in the Human Rights Council of North Central Florida GUARDIAN's November 1996 issue (Volume 2, Number 4).
Saturday, August 26, 1995
Gainesville Sun interviews Richard Grayson on Legal Challenges to Marijuana Laws
The Gainesville Sun today (Saturday, August 26, 1995) interviewed attorney Richard Grayson on legal challenges to marijuana laws after a Gainesville man,Dennis Watkins, the "doobie tosser," was arrested at the Hempfest celebration for tossing joints into the crowd.
An excerpt:
But court records regarding marijuana cases suggest there won't be any changes in the law because of December's hearing, said Richard Grayson, visiting assistant in law at the University of Florida's Center for Governmental Responsibility
"There have been a lot of constitutional challenges under the federal and state constitutions. Most of the challenges have been unavailing," Grayson said.
Past challenges have been based on a variety of arguments, including selective arrests, the right to privacy, religious beliefs, cruel and unusual punishment because of harsh drug laws, the lack of legislation regarding “drugs” such as alcohol and tobacco and the distinction between the use of marijuana and cocaine or heroin, Grayson said.
Grayson also noted that some drug cases have been overturned because there is a legal distinction between what occurs in the home and in public.
“Your home is your castle. You can do things there, like walk around without clothing. You can’t do that on the street.”
Watkins was charged by Gainesville Police last November for distribution and possession of marijuana after officers said he tossed marijuana cigarettes to the Hempfest crowd outside the courthouse.
“It doesn’t sound like you have much of a chance,” said Grayson about the defense’s position.
“We are hopeful we can get some favorable ruling,” said Watkins’ attorney, Gary Wainwright, about the upcoming trial.
The trial also gives marijuana supporters a chance to express their opinions to the public, Grayson said.
There is always a chance that something surprising will happen, Grayson said.
In 1978, a Florida circuit court found the state statute for private possession and use of marijuana unconstitutional following medical testimony showing the social effects of prohibition outweighed the social effects of decriminalization.
“There are all kinds of constitutional things if you have a creative attorney,” Grayson said.
Grayson also appeared as a guest on the WUFT-TV/5 program North Florida Journal in a show devoted to the issue marijuana legalization.
Wednesday, May 18, 1994
Graduation from University of Florida College of Law
Richard Grayson graduated from the University of Florida College of Law with a Juris Doctor degree (high honors) in May 1994.
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