One of her five favorite examples of autobiographical writing putatively devoted to other subjects, as told to The Daily Beast:Monster in a Box by Spalding GrayRead about the other entries on the list.
Monster is a dramatic monologue, in Gray’s own words “a monologue about a man who can’t write a book about a man who can’t take a vacation.” Plagued by his unfinished 1,800-page novel, the eponymous Monster, Gray seeks to escape it through constant travel. Yet wherever he goes—as it is said—there he is, contained in a Protestant halo of exquisite self-awareness.
--Marshal Zeringue
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