This title is the re-issue of a cult classic 20 years after first publication - a soul-baring monologue inspired by The Killing Fields. Hired as an actor in Roland Joffe's extraordinary film, The Killing Fields, Spalding Gray turned his experiences into a monologue which he performed all over the world and which, since it was subsequently filmed on its own account, has acquired more than cult status. Originally published by Picador in the UK but now out of print, Swimming to Cambodia is re-issued twenty years after first publication and two years after the death of the author. As well as offering an eloquent anatomy of South-East Asia, Swimming to Cambodia is laden with movie gossip. Names are dropped, marijuana is smoked, the bordellos of Bangkok are visited. But behind it all lies the genocide that claimed two million lives under the Pol Pot regime. Famed for a kind of emotional exhibitionism that would put Woody Allen to shame, Gray uses himself as raw material.

A hilarious monologue about fatherhood by a unique comic voiceIn Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged, and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Gray comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of a "wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Gray time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness-"Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?"A richly comic work about parenthood, about adults who don't grow up and children who do, "Morning, Noon and Night" stands as Gray's most mature work to date.

For some time now, writer-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray has been carrying around with him a monster: a manuscript of a novel called Impossible Vacation, a book that at last sighting weighed in at about 1,800 pages. Monster in a Box, Gray's latest monologue, is a guided tour between the stations of his writing block, which include a field trip to Nicaragua, a disastrous guest appearance at the Moscow film festival, and a stint in Los Angeles hunting down the fabled few who have never written a screenplay. Hilarious and poignant, Monster in a Box is further proof that Gray has not only captured the dangerous spirit of our age but swallowed it whole.

This is a collection of six monologues by the master of one-man drama. Included are "Sex and Death at the Age of 14," "Booze, Cars, and College Girls," "47 Beds," "Nobody Wanted to Sit Behind a Desk," "Travels through New England," and "Terror of Pleasure: The House." Also includes a preface by the author.

Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the extraordinary inner life of the actor-writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as "Swimming to Cambodia."
Begun when he was twenty-five, Spalding Gray's journals reflect on his childhood; his craving for success; the downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s; his love affairs, marriages, and fatherhood; his travels in Europe and Asia; and throughout, his passion for the theater, where he worked to balance his compulsion to tell all with his fear of having his deepest secrets exposed. "The Journals of Spalding Gray" gives us a haunting portrait of a creative genius who we thought had told us everything about himself--until now.