Monster in a Box Audiobook By Spalding Gray cover art

Monster in a Box

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Monster in a Box

By: Spalding Gray
Narrated by: Spalding Gray
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $10.18

Buy for $10.18

When Spalding Gray first arrived in New York City in 1959, it was to become a writer of great sprawling novels. He got sidetracked into the theater for 30 years until one day his literary agent said, "I think you've got a novel inside you." Instead of elective surgery, Spalding sat down to write if he could, or pace floors in different cities plumbing the depths of writer's block if he couldn't. In this recording, Gray, now one of America's premiere monologists, performs Monster in a Box, the story of one man's struggle against publication, the writing of a 1900-page manuscript that became the much smaller Impossible Vacation. Gray recounts the horrors of putting one word after another, and another, and another...Recording (P)1996 by Audio Literature Biographies & Memoirs Drama & Plays Entertainment & Celebrities Witty United States Funny Celebrity World Literature

Critic reviews

"The nation's outstanding storyteller." (The Los Angeles Times)

People who viewed this also viewed...

Life Interrupted Audiobook By Spalding Gray, Francine Prose - introduction cover art
Life Interrupted By: Spalding Gray, and others
First Words Audiobook By Spalding Gray, Lynda Barry, Tom Bodett, Marion Winik, Rick Reynolds, Hugh Gallagher, Richard B. Stolley, Kevin Kling, Bailey White cover art
First Words By: Spalding Gray, and others
All stars
Most relevant
Spalding Gray was in a league of his own. Highly recommend to fans and newcomers alike.

One of the great's great performances.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
One great feature of audible is that if you've purchased this already, you get to download this <b>hugely</b> improved version!

I can only hope they do the same for "Terrors of Pleasure."

Improved sound!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I first saw Spalding Gray in person doing his "Personal History of American Theater" piece in Charlottesville, Va. In the early 80's. Wow. I thought. That guy is amazing. And I listened and I watched over his amazing career of sharing himself with us. And laughed and cried and loved him. Get this audio book. It's Spald...he lives!! I love him.

Oh Spalding! I miss you so much!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Any additional comments?

If you like Spalding Gray's other work (Swimming to Cambodia being his best known) you will very likely enjoy this. A great performance that moves between deftly between light and dark and has plenty of enjoyable twists and turns.

Vintage Spaulding Gray

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Spalding, as usual is brilliant, but if you are sensitive to audio quality you might want to pass on this one.

Wonderful content, poor audio

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews