Minneapolis Tribune reviews First Person Intense, an anthology with a contribution by Richard Grayson

Today, Sunday, April 29, 1979, the Minneapolis Tribune published on page 12G a review of First Person Intense, edited by Sasha Newborn. The reviewer, Barry Silesky, mentioned Richard Grayson's contribution to the anthology:

As might be expected from a collection of journal excerpts, there is a good deal of self-indulgence, occasionally smacking of that late '60s, post-hippie sensibility which seeks to startle, but is more often merely tiresome. Still, however, the sheer variety of styles makes for an entertaining tour of some of the frontiers of contemporary prose. The book is given some structure through division into six sections, which correspond loosely to different points of view, or aspects of the writers' experience. The first is aptly titled "The Writer." and Richard Grayson's musing is an eloquent and ironic slice of the difficult and seldom rewarding realities of that life