Richard Grayson letter in The New York Times on South Florida as New York's Sixth Borough

Richard Grayson has a letter in the New York Times today (September 19, 2004): "The Sixth Boroughs":

To the Editor:

Jonathan Safran Foer is one of our finest young novelists, and "The Sixth Borough" (Op-Ed, Sept. 17) is a wonderful work of fiction.

Of course, those of us who live in South Florida know that we live in the real sixth borough of New York City.

Richard Grayson
Davie, Fla., Sept. 17, 2004

HAPPY features Richard Grayson's "The Jurisprudence of Breast Size"

Richard Grayson's story "The Jurisprudence of Breast Size" appears in the current issue (#9, 1998) of Bayard's New York-based literary journal Happy.

Richard Grayson letter in The New York Times: "Ban Cars, Not Carts, On New York Streets"

Richard Grayson has a letter in the New York Times today (June 11, 1998), "Ban Cars, Not Carts, On New York Streets":


To the Editor:

Fred I. Kent 3d and Andrew G. Schwartz (Op-Ed, June 6) argue that street vendors in New York should be encouraged because the decline of street-level coffee shops, bars and cafeterias has made a quick, cheap lunch hard to find in parts of Manhattan. But these establishments have largely been replaced by fast-food restaurants like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Pizza Hut, which have locations all over Manhattan. Moreover, many delis and grocery stores feature takeout salad bars and sandwiches.

Street vendors may be an asset to New York, but they are hardly the only purveyors of quick, cheap lunches.

RICHARD GRAYSON
Mesa, Ariz., June 6, 1998

Delray Beach News-Journal Reviews Richard Grayson's WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK

Today's Delray Beach News Journal (Wednesday, April 1, 1981) has a review of Richard Grayson's With Hitler in New York:


Book review

WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK.
By Richard Grayson. Taplinger, 1979.
$7.95, 190 pages.

By Jack Saunders

Hannah Arendt wrote a book called The Banality of Evil. Or she wrote about the concept "the banality of evil" in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. I don't remember. The phrase has entered the language. Like the phrase "The Ugly American" entered the language – backwards. Facts are banal. Evil is banal. Hitler is alive and living in New York.

With Hitler in New York, by Richard Grayson, is a collection of stories about what people do in this country: watch television, eat junk food, go to art museums, visit nursing homes, go to psychiatrists. With Hitler in New York is a serious book. A funny one too.

When a radio station in New York read over the air the names of men who had been picked up for patronizing prostitutes – the so-called john list – Grayson called the station and turned himself in. He wanted his name read "before I strike again."

These stories strike like lunacy.

If your bookstore doesn't have this book, it's available from the publisher (Taplinger Publishing Company, 132 West 22nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10011) for $7.95.

Grayson, who lives in his parents' spare room in Davie, just outside Ojus, doesn't have any, having given all his complimentary author's copies away.

I read a review that compared Grayson to Steve Martin and Fran Leibowitz. I'd compare him to Franz Kafka. No, I'd compare him to Nathanael West.

Man, this guy can write.

New York Post features Richard Grayson's prize-winning "Tales of New York" story

The New York Post today (Saturday, March 24, 1979) features a story by Richard Grayson, winner of its "Tales of New York" story contest, judged by James Brady.