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Richard Grayson (writer)

February 18, 2023

Richard Grayson (born June 4, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York) is a writer, political activist and performance artist, most noted for his books of short stories and his satiric runs for public office.

Richard Grayson
Born
Richard Arnold Ginsberg

(1951-06-04) June 4, 1951 (age 71)
Brooklyn, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter
Websiterichardgrayson.com

Grayson's fiction is largely autobiographical, or pseudo-autobiographical.

Early career

Grayson was born in 1951 and attended New York public schools, graduating from Midwood High School in 1968.[1] He attended Brooklyn College and received a B.A. in political science in 1973 and an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1976; Grayson also received an M.A. in English from Richmond College (now The College of Staten Island) in 1975.[2] His stories began appearing in literary magazines in the mid-1970s, and in 1979, his first book-length collection of short stories, With Hitler in New York, was published.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] In the same year Grayson registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as a candidate for Vice President of the United States, receiving coverage for his humorous "campaign".[10][11][12]

By 1979, Grayson had over 125 stories published in magazines and anthologies.[13][14] He remained a prolific writer in the early 1980s, when several short story collections came out in quick succession: Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1982),[15][16][17][18][19] Eating at Arby's (1982),[20][21][22] and I Brake for Delmore Schwartz (1983).[23][24][25] Most of these stories originally appeared in journals such as Transatlantic Review, Texas Quarterly, California Quarterly, and Epoch.[26][27]

In 1981, Grayson received a $3,000 grant from the Florida Fine Arts Council for his fiction.[28] In 1988, Grayson received a writer-in-residence award for from the New York State Council on the Arts to be the writer-in-residence at the Rockland Arts Center in West Nyack, New York.[29] Grayson also won a $5,000 fellowship in literature/fiction from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs in 1998.[30]

Also in 1981, Grayson began a series of what he termed "publicity art," getting media attention for creating a fan club and fan magazine for his grandmother[31][32] and starting a campaign to draft Burt Reynolds as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida.[33] Grayson also filed a political action committee to draft Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Brooklyn in order to "neutralize" the Ayatollah during the Iran hostage crisis, saying that if elected, "Khomeini would be as ineffective as any other congressman."[34]

Political activity

In 1982, Grayson ran for a seat on the Davie, Florida, town council on a platform advocating that the town's numerous horses be given the right to vote.[35] He also suggested that Davie could gain more aid from the federal government by seceding from the U.S. and becoming a foreign country, "especially if we threaten to turn Communist."[36] A Miami Herald editorial endorsed his opponent, calling Grayson's candidacy "some kind of wry joke."[37] Upon learning that he had received only 25% of the vote, Grayson announced that he was moving to the neighboring city of Sunrise, saying Davie residents "won't have Dick Grayson to kick around anymore."[38]

In 1983, Grayson filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run for President of the United States in 1984 as a Democrat.[39] Over the next year, the exploits in his humorous campaign to replace President Ronald Reagan were widely covered in the media.[40] Perhaps his best-known remark, quoted in Time, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, was his explanation of why he asked the actress Jane Wyman, star of the then-current nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest and the former wife of the incumbent president, to be his vice presidential running mate: "She already has experience in dumping Ronald Reagan."[41] As an alternative vice presidential candidate, Grayson favored Meryl Streep because he liked the sound of "Streep for Veep."[42] Grayson said he would appoint Donna Summer as Secretary of Labor because "she works hard for the money."[43] Other platform planks in the Grayson campaign included making El Salvador the 51st state[44] and moving the U.S. capital to Davenport, Iowa.[45]

In November 1983, Grayson took part in a series of debates with other minor presidential candidates at shopping malls in Florida.[46][47][48][49][50]

A few months later, in January 1984, while an instructor of English at Broward Community College, Grayson sent a questionnaire to Florida state senators for a survey he was conducting called "Legislators in Love," implying that state funds were used in his academic research.[51][52][53][54]

In 1986, Grayson, then 34, filed an age discrimination complaint with the Broward County Human Relations Division after he was denied a senior citizen account featuring free checking at AmeriFirst Federal Savings and Loan Association.[55][56][57] The division dismissed the case after Grayson refused a settlement that would be kept secret,[58] but Grayson claimed he had proved his point that discounts should be based on need, not age.[59][60]

Also in 1986, after Grayson filed a political action committee to draft Claus von Bülow to run in that year's U.S. Senate election in New York, von Bülow said he had no intention to run for any political office and was "not an American subject."[61]

In the 1988 presidential primary in Florida, when "Undecided" was an option on the ballot, Grayson created an organization, Florida Democrats for Undecided, to promote that option.[62] "Undecided" won 6.2% of the vote, finishing ahead of three of the seven presidential candidates on the ballot.[63]

To help raise money for the financially struggling Donald Trump in 1990, Grayson, with "tongue firmly in cheek," created the Trump Rescue Fund in 1990, soliciting money for the billionaire on the streets of New York,[64] though a Trump Tower employee shooed Grayson and his hand-lettered flyers away from the building.[65] Later in 1990, as the economy faltered, Grayson appeared on CNN touting Pauper, a magazine featuring "articles about poor celebrities, bankrupt businesses, failed financial institutions, [and] tips on frugal living."[66] A "Pauper 400" list would "answer the lists of the super-rich in 'wealth-oriented magazines.'"[67]

In September 1991, Grayson spoke at a public hearing of the Florida Redistricting Commission, showing his drawings of legislative districts configured like a palm tree, the Space Shuttle, the sun, a boat and an alligator, saying that districts in recognizable shapes would get more voters interested in state government.[68]

During the 1994 elections, upset at how many Republican U.S. House members of Florida were unopposed by Democrats, Grayson filed with the Division of Elections as a write-in candidate to run against Representative Michael Bilirakis in Florida's 9th congressional district in the Tampa Bay area although Grayson lived outside the district, in Gainesville.[69][70][71][72] Despite naming his political campaign committee "God Hates Republicans," Grayson received only 157 write-in votes.[73]

In the 1996 election, Grayson filed as a write-in candidate against Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican who was otherwise unopposed in the Miami-based 18th congressional district.[74][75]

For the 2004 elections, Grayson again filed to run as a write-in candidate in the election against an otherwise unopposed Florida Republican U.S. House member, Ander Crenshaw.[76] After winning the endorsement of John B. Anderson, an independent candidate for president in 1980, Grayson told Broward Palm Beach New Times, "What I'm doing now is not quite a joke...I'm trying to make a point. In Florida, we have a system where, if one candidate files for an office and no other candidate files, then there's no election."[77] In the conservative 4th congressional district in northern Florida, Grayson supported legal recognition of same-sex marriage, socialized medicine, a $10 an hour minimum wage, repeal of President George W. Bush's tax cuts, and immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq; Grayson did not set foot in the district until October 2, 2004, when he did a television spot at a Jacksonville CBS affiliate.[78] Grayson received less than 1% of the vote.[79]

Grayson became the Green Party nominee for Arizona's 6th congressional district in the 2010 election after winning the party's primary with six write-in votes.[80][81] The Green Party sued Grayson and other party nominees, claiming they were "sham" candidates who should be removed from the November ballot.[82] A federal judge ruled in favor of Grayson and other Green Party primary winners.[83]

Grayson ran for president again in the 2012 election, this time in the Green Party's Arizona presidential primary and was endorsed by the Tucson Weekly, which noted "we have been most impressed with Richard Grayson, including his plan to deport Republicans back to the 18th century, where they could be more comfortable with their tricorner hats and other Tea Party garb, and his demand that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu be nicer to his ex-boyfriends."[84] In a field of six candidates, Grayson finished in a tie for third place, with 39 votes.[85]

Later in 2012, Grayson changed his voter registration to the new Americans Elect party and in the primary, he won the party's nomination for Congress against incumbent Republican Paul Gosar in Arizona's 4th congressional district.[86] Grayson finished fourth in the general election, receiving 1% of the vote in November 2012.[87]

In the 2014 election, running unopposed, Grayson won the Democratic nomination for Wyoming's at-large congressional district.[88] When Grayson ran as a "hip-hop candidate," with a campaign committee called PPLZ 4 GRAYSON CREW, the head of the Wyoming Democratic party said of his campaign, "I am not thrilled with it."[89] The only endorsement Grayson received came from United Auto Workers.[90] In November 2014, Grayson garnered 23% of the vote running against Republican Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis.[91] Despite not campaigning, spending any money, or visiting Wyoming, Grayson managed to beat Lummis 46% to 43% in Teton County.[92] For the 2016 election, he filed to run again for Congress in Wyoming,[93] but quit when a local Democrat entered the race.[94]

Grayson won another Green Party primary in 2018, this time for the election for state representative in Arizona's 16th legislative district.[95] When no Democrat filed to oppose Kelly Townsend for state senator in the same district in the 2020 election, Grayson filed as a write-in candidate “for those Democrats and others who hate Trump Republicans.”[96]

In 2022, with no Democrat on the ballot in Arizona's 9th congressional district, Grayson ran a write-in campaign against incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Paul Gosar,[97] receiving 3,531 votes to Gosar's 192,976 votes.[98]

Social activism and writing

Grayson's experience as a lawyer and gay activist informed some of the stories in his 1996 collection, I Survived Caracas Traffic,[99] whose title story Kirkus Reviews called "a resonant meditation on the themes of relationships, AIDS, and mortality."[100] Another story in the same volume is "Twelve Step Barbie,"[101][102][103][104] which, along with "With Hitler in New York"[105][106] is probably the author's best-known work and the subject of academic criticism.[107][108][109][110][111][112] The New York Times Book Review called the book "far too bright and keenly made to flick casually away.[113]

In New York in June 1990, Grayson created Radio Free Broward, a service to mail copies of the 2 Live Crew album As Nasty as They Wanna Be to residents of South Florida, where a federal judge had ruled it obscene and where a record store owner was arrested for selling it.[114][115][116] Grayson attended the Fort Lauderdale obscenity trials related to the album the following autumn and winter.[117]

Other tongue-in-cheek campaigns initiated by Grayson include warning Americans to keep their pets indoors to keep the Skylab satellite from falling on them and a drive for a constitutional amendment to ban bra burning, satirizing those who favored a flag desecration amendment.[118][119]

As a staff attorney in social policy at the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida law school, Grayson began writing op-ed columns for various Florida newspapers opposing proposed laws limiting the rights of gay speakers on college campuses,[120] reinstating chain gangs in prisons,[121] charging lottery winners for past welfare payments,[122] and randomly testing students in middle and high school students for drugs,[123] along with Florida's then-existing ban on adoptions by LGBT parents.[124]

In addition to teaching at Broward Community College, Grayson has taught at Long Island University, Brooklyn College, Kingsborough Community College and The School of Visual Arts in New York;[125][126][127] Santa Fe Community College, Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University in Florida;[128][129][130] and Arizona State University and Mesa Community College in Arizona.[131][132][133] He has also led workshops at writers' conference, including those at Winthrop College (now Winthrop University) and Francis Marion College (now Francis Marion University) in South Carolina.[134][135]

Grayson has held residencies at several artists' colonies, including MacDowell,[136] the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,[137] Ragdale,[138] the Montalvo Arts Center and the Ucross Foundation.[139]

Recent work

Grayson originally published some of the gay-themed stories in The Silicon Valley Diet[140] on early internet sites that featured short fiction.[141][142][143] In 2004 he appeared in various literary webzines with his memoirs, satire, and stories.[144][145][146] His "Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District," a recurring feature on the website of McSweeney's, covered his 2004 campaign as the sole opponent to Rep. Crenshaw.[147]

More recently, Grayson published two short story collections almost simultaneously. The more experimental book was Highly Irregular Stories (2006), which Kirkus called "an eclectic anthology of intriguing short stories...Grayson’s stories here recall no one so much as Richard Brautigan, who walked a similar line between wit and warmth in his more eccentric novels."[148] In its review of the book, Hipster Book Club said, "The funny stuff in Highly Irregular Stories is not just mildly amusing but actually laugh-out-loud funny."[149]

The second volume, And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street (2006), which Kirkus termed "[a] funny, odd, somehow familiar and fully convincing fictional world,"[150] featured more representational and autobiographical stories, set mostly in Brooklyn.[151]

In 2008, Grayson self-published a book featuring some uncollected stories from three decades under the title Who Will Kiss the Pig?: Sex Stories for Teens. Kirkus called the book “[f]unny, pleasurable and often prescient short fiction that delivers many more hits than misses,”[152] but most of the media attention came from Gawker and Gothamist after Grayson placed a Craigslist ad that began, “Cool Brooklyn book publisher looking for cool 18-25yo hipsters to blurb our cool forthcoming book of sex stories for teens.”[153][154]

In 2009, Grayson's writing also appeared in the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film and the chapbooks The Tao Shoplifting Crisis and I Hate All of You on This L Train.[155][156][157][158][159][160]

When Martha Stewart was indicted in 2003, Grayson launched the Martha Stewart Legal Defense Fund to raise money for her, saying "My life was changed by her. I basically used to be a slob."[161][162]

In a satirical response to a 2011 edition of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published by NewSouth Books, which replaced the word "nigger" with "slave" to make the novel more "classroom-friendly," Grayson published "The Hipster Huckleberry Finn," which is an edition with the word "nigger" replaced with the word "hipster" in order, he claimed, to make Huck's adventures "neither offensive nor uncool."[163]

In 2012, Thought Catalog published "An 18-Year-Old's Diary Entries from August, 1969,"[164] purporting to be from Grayson's actual diary. In the next eight years, over 600 more posts followed, all supposedly from Grayson's diary, ending in August 1988.[165] In a 2015 interview, Grayson claimed to have written a continuous diary since 1969.[166][167]

While the Dictionary of Literary Biography has called Grayson "a marginal figure in contemporary American fiction," it also noted that "he and his fictional persona seem quite aware of this fact" and that "taken as a body of work, Grayson's short fiction ultimately appears to be one ongoing, career-long writing project, focused always on the effects of contemporary culture on the self."[168]

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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Richard Grayson writer news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2010 Learn how and when to remove this template message A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view Please discuss further on the talk page August 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Richard Grayson born June 4 1951 in Brooklyn New York is a writer political activist and performance artist most noted for his books of short stories and his satiric runs for public office Richard GraysonBornRichard Arnold Ginsberg 1951 06 04 June 4 1951 age 71 Brooklyn New York USNationalityAmericanOccupationWriterWebsiterichardgrayson wbr comGrayson s fiction is largely autobiographical or pseudo autobiographical Contents 1 Early career 2 Political activity 3 Social activism and writing 4 Recent work 5 ReferencesEarly career EditGrayson was born in 1951 and attended New York public schools graduating from Midwood High School in 1968 1 He attended Brooklyn College and received a B A in political science in 1973 and an M F A in creative writing in 1976 Grayson also received an M A in English from Richmond College now The College of Staten Island in 1975 2 His stories began appearing in literary magazines in the mid 1970s and in 1979 his first book length collection of short stories With Hitler in New York was published 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 In the same year Grayson registered with the Federal Election Commission FEC as a candidate for Vice President of the United States receiving coverage for his humorous campaign 10 11 12 By 1979 Grayson had over 125 stories published in magazines and anthologies 13 14 He remained a prolific writer in the early 1980s when several short story collections came out in quick succession Lincoln s Doctor s Dog 1982 15 16 17 18 19 Eating at Arby s 1982 20 21 22 and I Brake for Delmore Schwartz 1983 23 24 25 Most of these stories originally appeared in journals such as Transatlantic Review Texas Quarterly California Quarterly and Epoch 26 27 In 1981 Grayson received a 3 000 grant from the Florida Fine Arts Council for his fiction 28 In 1988 Grayson received a writer in residence award for from the New York State Council on the Arts to be the writer in residence at the Rockland Arts Center in West Nyack New York 29 Grayson also won a 5 000 fellowship in literature fiction from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs in 1998 30 Also in 1981 Grayson began a series of what he termed publicity art getting media attention for creating a fan club and fan magazine for his grandmother 31 32 and starting a campaign to draft Burt Reynolds as a Republican candidate for the U S Senate from Florida 33 Grayson also filed a political action committee to draft Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran to run for the U S House of Representatives from Brooklyn in order to neutralize the Ayatollah during the Iran hostage crisis saying that if elected Khomeini would be as ineffective as any other congressman 34 Political activity EditIn 1982 Grayson ran for a seat on the Davie Florida town council on a platform advocating that the town s numerous horses be given the right to vote 35 He also suggested that Davie could gain more aid from the federal government by seceding from the U S and becoming a foreign country especially if we threaten to turn Communist 36 A Miami Herald editorial endorsed his opponent calling Grayson s candidacy some kind of wry joke 37 Upon learning that he had received only 25 of the vote Grayson announced that he was moving to the neighboring city of Sunrise saying Davie residents won t have Dick Grayson to kick around anymore 38 In 1983 Grayson filed with the Federal Election Commission FEC to run for President of the United States in 1984 as a Democrat 39 Over the next year the exploits in his humorous campaign to replace President Ronald Reagan were widely covered in the media 40 Perhaps his best known remark quoted in Time USA Today and The Wall Street Journal was his explanation of why he asked the actress Jane Wyman star of the then current nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest and the former wife of the incumbent president to be his vice presidential running mate She already has experience in dumping Ronald Reagan 41 As an alternative vice presidential candidate Grayson favored Meryl Streep because he liked the sound of Streep for Veep 42 Grayson said he would appoint Donna Summer as Secretary of Labor because she works hard for the money 43 Other platform planks in the Grayson campaign included making El Salvador the 51st state 44 and moving the U S capital to Davenport Iowa 45 In November 1983 Grayson took part in a series of debates with other minor presidential candidates at shopping malls in Florida 46 47 48 49 50 A few months later in January 1984 while an instructor of English at Broward Community College Grayson sent a questionnaire to Florida state senators for a survey he was conducting called Legislators in Love implying that state funds were used in his academic research 51 52 53 54 In 1986 Grayson then 34 filed an age discrimination complaint with the Broward County Human Relations Division after he was denied a senior citizen account featuring free checking at AmeriFirst Federal Savings and Loan Association 55 56 57 The division dismissed the case after Grayson refused a settlement that would be kept secret 58 but Grayson claimed he had proved his point that discounts should be based on need not age 59 60 Also in 1986 after Grayson filed a political action committee to draft Claus von Bulow to run in that year s U S Senate election in New York von Bulow said he had no intention to run for any political office and was not an American subject 61 In the 1988 presidential primary in Florida when Undecided was an option on the ballot Grayson created an organization Florida Democrats for Undecided to promote that option 62 Undecided won 6 2 of the vote finishing ahead of three of the seven presidential candidates on the ballot 63 To help raise money for the financially struggling Donald Trump in 1990 Grayson with tongue firmly in cheek created the Trump Rescue Fund in 1990 soliciting money for the billionaire on the streets of New York 64 though a Trump Tower employee shooed Grayson and his hand lettered flyers away from the building 65 Later in 1990 as the economy faltered Grayson appeared on CNN touting Pauper a magazine featuring articles about poor celebrities bankrupt businesses failed financial institutions and tips on frugal living 66 A Pauper 400 list would answer the lists of the super rich in wealth oriented magazines 67 In September 1991 Grayson spoke at a public hearing of the Florida Redistricting Commission showing his drawings of legislative districts configured like a palm tree the Space Shuttle the sun a boat and an alligator saying that districts in recognizable shapes would get more voters interested in state government 68 During the 1994 elections upset at how many Republican U S House members of Florida were unopposed by Democrats Grayson filed with the Division of Elections as a write in candidate to run against Representative Michael Bilirakis in Florida s 9th congressional district in the Tampa Bay area although Grayson lived outside the district in Gainesville 69 70 71 72 Despite naming his political campaign committee God Hates Republicans Grayson received only 157 write in votes 73 In the 1996 election Grayson filed as a write in candidate against Rep Ileana Ros Lehtinen a Republican who was otherwise unopposed in the Miami based 18th congressional district 74 75 For the 2004 elections Grayson again filed to run as a write in candidate in the election against an otherwise unopposed Florida Republican U S House member Ander Crenshaw 76 After winning the endorsement of John B Anderson an independent candidate for president in 1980 Grayson told Broward Palm Beach New Times What I m doing now is not quite a joke I m trying to make a point In Florida we have a system where if one candidate files for an office and no other candidate files then there s no election 77 In the conservative 4th congressional district in northern Florida Grayson supported legal recognition of same sex marriage socialized medicine a 10 an hour minimum wage repeal of President George W Bush s tax cuts and immediate withdrawal of U S troops from Iraq Grayson did not set foot in the district until October 2 2004 when he did a television spot at a Jacksonville CBS affiliate 78 Grayson received less than 1 of the vote 79 Grayson became the Green Party nominee for Arizona s 6th congressional district in the 2010 election after winning the party s primary with six write in votes 80 81 The Green Party sued Grayson and other party nominees claiming they were sham candidates who should be removed from the November ballot 82 A federal judge ruled in favor of Grayson and other Green Party primary winners 83 Grayson ran for president again in the 2012 election this time in the Green Party s Arizona presidential primary and was endorsed by the Tucson Weekly which noted we have been most impressed with Richard Grayson including his plan to deport Republicans back to the 18th century where they could be more comfortable with their tricorner hats and other Tea Party garb and his demand that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu be nicer to his ex boyfriends 84 In a field of six candidates Grayson finished in a tie for third place with 39 votes 85 Later in 2012 Grayson changed his voter registration to the new Americans Elect party and in the primary he won the party s nomination for Congress against incumbent Republican Paul Gosar in Arizona s 4th congressional district 86 Grayson finished fourth in the general election receiving 1 of the vote in November 2012 87 In the 2014 election running unopposed Grayson won the Democratic nomination for Wyoming s at large congressional district 88 When Grayson ran as a hip hop candidate with a campaign committee called PPLZ 4 GRAYSON CREW the head of the Wyoming Democratic party said of his campaign I am not thrilled with it 89 The only endorsement Grayson received came from United Auto Workers 90 In November 2014 Grayson garnered 23 of the vote running against Republican Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis 91 Despite not campaigning spending any money or visiting Wyoming Grayson managed to beat Lummis 46 to 43 in Teton County 92 For the 2016 election he filed to run again for Congress in Wyoming 93 but quit when a local Democrat entered the race 94 Grayson won another Green Party primary in 2018 this time for the election for state representative in Arizona s 16th legislative district 95 When no Democrat filed to oppose Kelly Townsend for state senator in the same district in the 2020 election Grayson filed as a write in candidate for those Democrats and others who hate Trump Republicans 96 In 2022 with no Democrat on the ballot in Arizona s 9th congressional district Grayson ran a write in campaign against incumbent Republican U S Representative Paul Gosar 97 receiving 3 531 votes to Gosar s 192 976 votes 98 Social activism and writing EditGrayson s experience as a lawyer and gay activist informed some of the stories in his 1996 collection I Survived Caracas Traffic 99 whose title story Kirkus Reviews called a resonant meditation on the themes of relationships AIDS and mortality 100 Another story in the same volume is Twelve Step Barbie 101 102 103 104 which along with With Hitler in New York 105 106 is probably the author s best known work and the subject of academic criticism 107 108 109 110 111 112 The New York Times Book Review called the book far too bright and keenly made to flick casually away 113 In New York in June 1990 Grayson created Radio Free Broward a service to mail copies of the 2 Live Crew album As Nasty as They Wanna Be to residents of South Florida where a federal judge had ruled it obscene and where a record store owner was arrested for selling it 114 115 116 Grayson attended the Fort Lauderdale obscenity trials related to the album the following autumn and winter 117 Other tongue in cheek campaigns initiated by Grayson include warning Americans to keep their pets indoors to keep the Skylab satellite from falling on them and a drive for a constitutional amendment to ban bra burning satirizing those who favored a flag desecration amendment 118 119 As a staff attorney in social policy at the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida law school Grayson began writing op ed columns for various Florida newspapers opposing proposed laws limiting the rights of gay speakers on college campuses 120 reinstating chain gangs in prisons 121 charging lottery winners for past welfare payments 122 and randomly testing students in middle and high school students for drugs 123 along with Florida s then existing ban on adoptions by LGBT parents 124 In addition to teaching at Broward Community College Grayson has taught at Long Island University Brooklyn College Kingsborough Community College and The School of Visual Arts in New York 125 126 127 Santa Fe Community College Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University in Florida 128 129 130 and Arizona State University and Mesa Community College in Arizona 131 132 133 He has also led workshops at writers conference including those at Winthrop College now Winthrop University and Francis Marion College now Francis Marion University in South Carolina 134 135 Grayson has held residencies at several artists colonies including MacDowell 136 the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 137 Ragdale 138 the Montalvo Arts Center and the Ucross Foundation 139 Recent work EditGrayson originally published some of the gay themed stories in The Silicon Valley Diet 140 on early internet sites that featured short fiction 141 142 143 In 2004 he appeared in various literary webzines with his memoirs satire and stories 144 145 146 His Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida s Fourth Congressional District a recurring feature on the website of McSweeney s covered his 2004 campaign as the sole opponent to Rep Crenshaw 147 More recently Grayson published two short story collections almost simultaneously The more experimental book was Highly Irregular Stories 2006 which Kirkus called an eclectic anthology of intriguing short stories Grayson s stories here recall no one so much as Richard Brautigan who walked a similar line between wit and warmth in his more eccentric novels 148 In its review of the book Hipster Book Club said The funny stuff in Highly Irregular Stories is not just mildly amusing but actually laugh out loud funny 149 The second volume And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street 2006 which Kirkus termed a funny odd somehow familiar and fully convincing fictional world 150 featured more representational and autobiographical stories set mostly in Brooklyn 151 In 2008 Grayson self published a book featuring some uncollected stories from three decades under the title Who Will Kiss the Pig Sex Stories for Teens Kirkus called the book f unny pleasurable and often prescient short fiction that delivers many more hits than misses 152 but most of the media attention came from Gawker and Gothamist after Grayson placed a Craigslist ad that began Cool Brooklyn book publisher looking for cool 18 25yo hipsters to blurb our cool forthcoming book of sex stories for teens 153 154 In 2009 Grayson s writing also appeared in the anthology Life As We Show It Writing on Film and the chapbooks The Tao Shoplifting Crisis and I Hate All of You on This L Train 155 156 157 158 159 160 When Martha Stewart was indicted in 2003 Grayson launched the Martha Stewart Legal Defense Fund to raise money for her saying My life was changed by her I basically used to be a slob 161 162 In a satirical response to a 2011 edition of Mark Twain s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published by NewSouth Books which replaced the word nigger with slave to make the novel more classroom friendly Grayson published The Hipster Huckleberry Finn which is an edition with the word nigger replaced with the word hipster in order he claimed to make Huck s adventures neither offensive nor uncool 163 In 2012 Thought Catalog published An 18 Year Old s Diary Entries from August 1969 164 purporting to be from Grayson s actual diary In the next eight years over 600 more posts followed all supposedly from Grayson s diary ending in August 1988 165 In a 2015 interview Grayson claimed to have written a continuous diary since 1969 166 167 While the Dictionary of Literary Biography has called Grayson a marginal figure in contemporary American fiction it also noted that he and his fictional persona seem quite aware of this fact and that taken as a body of work Grayson s short fiction ultimately appears to be one ongoing career long writing project focused always on the effects of contemporary culture on the self 168 References Edit 64 Seniors Win Merit Exam Awards Midwood Argus October 31 1967 p 1 Retrieved April 29 2022 via Internet Archive Richard Grayson The Orlando Sentinel November 5 2000 p G6 Retrieved July 27 2021 via Newspapers com Schoffman Stuart July 17 1979 Book Review A Parade of Jewish Relatives The Los Angeles Times p V6 Retrieved July 26 2021 via Newspapers com Smith Liz June 26 1979 A little salt in his foreign affairs The Daily News New York p 8 Retrieved June 26 2021 via Newspapers com 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