Further Reading
Criticism
Hornby, Nick. Review of Impossible Vacation, by Spalding Gray. Times Literary Supplement (14 January 1994): 20.
An unfavorable review of Impossible Vacation.
Johnson, Brian D. "The Talking Cure: A Performer Bases His Career on Confession." Maclean's (13 July 1992): 44.
Offers a brief overview of Gray's career and favorable assessment of Impossible Vacation and Monster in a Box.
King, W. D. "Dramaturgical Text and the Historical Record in the New Theatre: The Case of Rumstick Road." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 7, No. I (Fall 1992): 71-87.
Examines the composition, structure, and performance strategics of Rumstick Road.
Queenan, Joe. Review of Monster in a Box, by Spalding Gray. National Review (20 July 1992): 43-4.
A tempered review of Monster in a Box.
Interview
Panjabi, Gita. "Spalding Gray: Writing the Spoken, Speaking the Written." In In the Vernacular: Interviews at Yale with Sculptors of Culture, edited by Melissa E. Biggs, pp. 151-88. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991.
Gray discusses his early influences, creative processes, and the artistic concerns of his monologues.
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