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Richard Grayson is an ordinary person who was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1951 and currently (2010) lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
He has kept a daily diary entry without missing a day from August 1969, when he was an 18-year-old about to enter Brooklyn College, until now.
Collected in THE BROOKLYN DIARIES are the six volumes previously published:
SUMMER IN BROOKLYN: 1969-1975
AUTUMN IN BROOKLYN: 1978
WINTER IN BROOKLYN: 1971-72
SPRING IN BROOKLYN: 1975
MORE SUMMER IN BROOKLYN: 1976-1979
A YEAR IN ROCKAWAY: 1980
With the backdrop of 1970s Brooklyn, THE BROOKLYN DIARIES take Grayson through his years of college and graduate school, friendships and romances, family life and part-time jobs, college teaching and publishing short stories, past the publication of his first hardcover book to his final days in the city where he was born.
Amazon reviews for Richard Grayson's SUMMER IN BROOKLYN:
What goes through the mind of someone just reaching their prime as the seventies begin? "Summer in Brooklyn: 1969-1975" is a collection of summer diary entries from critically acclaimed author Richard Grayson. A window in the mind of a writer in a time where Vietnam War was dragging on, inner chaos roared through the country in response, and so much more occurred. "Summer in Brooklyn" is a vivid picture of the era.
-- Midwest Book Review
I became aware of this book after stumbling across some extracts on the net published by Brian Pera in his invaluable LIFE AS WE SHOW IT blog. The extract grouped together every time Richard Grayson went to the movies in the early 70s, and the diary entries from which this info was taken were immediately appealing and fresh--and real, the work of an authentically young man. So I ordered the book right away from Superstition Mountain Press, in order to get a bigger picture of Grayson's youth than just his movie going habits.
I was not disappointed. SUMMER IN BROOKLYN gives us the diary entries from Memorial Day through Labor Day, for six different years. Each day skips to a different year (1969-1975, so seven years get covered). At first Richard is eighteen, but often he is 24, and what a difference between the two ages! It's confusing and ultimately exhilarating, to see Richard shalom among all these ages, like a pinball in a giant machine. Soon however you will get a grip on the immutable facts of his life. Nurtured by a loving Jewish family in the Sheepshead Bay area, Richard grew up bookish and bright, already a storyteller by the time he enters Brooklyn College. In a way, it's like a Neil Simon play over again, except Richard benefits from the sixties sexual revolution and has some passionate sex affairs over time with girls like Ronna and Shelli. He's bisexual, or so he says, though we never see him having sex with any guys--maybe that's a pastime he saved for winter months. He fell in with the Fiction Collective crowd (book is dedicated to Jonathan Baumbach)), who encouraged his gift for postmodern prose, and turned him onto like minds.
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