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Product Description These six tales are a feast for those who like their experimental fiction funny. "Inside Barbara Walters" takes the reader into the private life of the TV celebrity and her strange relationship with a curious monkey. "Progress" charts the arrival of a young hustler in New York's Port Authority and his older double, who provides him with a primer on Hukapoo shirts, Muhammad Ali's exercise techniques, and the art of cooking Vietnamese chicken. In "The Facts are Always Friendly," five college students relive the winter of '72-'73. "A Disjointed Fiction" features the author dining with a famous sportscaster's daughter; imagining himself as Theodore Roosevelt; and watching (all in one day) episodes of "I Love Lucy," "The Lucy Show," "Here's Lucy," "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," "CBS Salutes 25 Years of Lucy," and the late movie, "The Long Trailer," starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The author returns to write a story about aliens who are giant insects and worship John Galsworthy in "Escape from the Planet of the Humanoids." And "Sixteen Fragments in Search of a Story" has Simon Garfinckel, his Grandpa Schnitz, Grandma Tutie and Uncle Wendell working their way into a fictional universe that ends: "I can't write any mo" Review A funny, very readable collection...These literary morsels and tidbits suggest a very fine talent... -- Hank Malone, Smudge Review, Winter 1978 Reading Grayson is often like watching a clown on a high wire. -- Susan Lloyd McGarry, Aspect, Winter 1979 Richard Grayson is frequently witty, nearly always irreverent... -- George William Fisher, Long Island Poetry Collective Newsletter, October 1978 About the Author Richard Grayson is a fiction writer, political activist, lawyer and the brains behind the campaign to draft Claus von Bulow to run for the Senate from New York State.