Richard Grayson has been keeping a daily diary compulsively since
the summer of 1969, when he was an 18-year-old agoraphobic about to
venture out into the world - or at least the world around him in
Brooklyn. His diary, approximately 600 words a day without missing
a day since August 1, 1969, now totals over 9 million words,
rivaling the longest diaries ever written. Excerpts from his
diaries have appeared online at McSWEENEY'S and THOUGHT CATALOG.
Grayson's diaries from August 1969 to June 1978 were published in a
number of previous volumes. MANHATTAN BEACH covers the second half
of 1978, when the 27-year-old diarist, having published over
seventy stories in little magazines, teaches remedial writing at a
community college in Brooklyn and unexpectedly gets a hardcover
book contract from a New York commercial publisher.
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