Reeve, Christopher, 5.1
Remember Me When I’m Gone: The Rich and Famous Write Their Own Epitaphs and Obituaries (King), 5.1
Rhoney, Anne, 4.1
Rich, Frank, 3.1, 5.1
Rojo, Jerry, 1.1
Ron (friend), 3.1, 3.2
Rorty, Amélie, 4.1
Rose, Charlie, 5.1
Ross, Joanna, 3.1
Roth, Philip, 5.1
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Int.1
Route 1 & 1.1 (Wooster Group), 3.1
Rumstick Road (Gray), Int.1, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 4.1
Russo, Karen, 4.1
Russo, Kathleen, Int.1–Int.2, Edi.1–Edi.2, Edi.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 4.6–4.7, 4.8, 4.9–4.10, 4.11–4.12, 4.13, 4.14–4.15, 4.16, 4.17–4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22–4.23, 4.24–4.25, 4.26, 4.27, 4.28–4.29, 4.30, 4.31, 4.32, 4.33
and Gray’s recovery from injuries, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
and Gray’s suicidal decline, 5.1–5.2, 5.3–5.4, 5.5
Russo, Kathleen (continued)
Gray’s death and, 5.1
Gray’s first meeting with, 4.1–4.2
Gray’s marriage to, 5.1
Gray’s relationship with, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1
Gray’s 10th anniversary with, 5.1
in auto accident, 5.1–5.2, 5.3, 5.4–5.5
in Gray’s dreams, 4.1, 5.1–5.2
in “Last Tape,” 5.1–5.2
North Haven house and, 5.1–5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Russo, Marissa, Int.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15–4.16, 4.17–4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Sacks, Oliver, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Sakonnet Point (Gray), 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Sam Pol (Sammy), 3.1, 3.2
Sandanistas, 3.1
Sands, Julian, 3.1–3.2, 3.3, 3.4–3.5
Sarah (lover), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1.1
Scanlon, John, 5.1
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 4.1
Schechner, Richard, 1.1–1.2, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 2.4–2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Schizopolis (film), 4.1
Schlamme, Thomas, Int.1, 3.1
Scorsese, Martin, 3.1, 3.2
Seidelman, Susan, 3.1
September 11 terrorist attacks, 5.1
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (album), 5.1
“Seven Scenes from a Family Album” (Gray), 3.1
sex, 2.1–2.2, 3.1
Sex and Death to the Age 14 (Gray), Int.1, 1.2, 2.1–2.2, 2.3–2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6–3.7
Sex and the City (TV show), 5.1
Sexton, Anne, 4.1
Shafransky, Arthur, 3.1, 3.2
Shafransky, Renée, Int.1, Int.2, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2–3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10–3.11, 3.12–3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.26, 3.27, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9–4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13–4.14, 4.15–4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22, 4.23, 4.24, 4.25, 4.26, 4.27, 4.28, 4.29, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Gray’s collaborations with, 3.1, 3.2–3.3
Gray’s first meeting with, 2.1–2.2
Gray’s marriage to, 4.1–4.2
Gray’s relationship with, 3.1–3.2, 3.3, 3.4–3.5, 3.6, 3.7–3.8, 3.9–3.10, 3.11–3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18–3.19, 3.20, 4.1, 4.2–4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6–4.7, 4.8, 4.9–4.10, 4.11–4.12, 4.13–4.14, 4.15, 4.16–4.17, 4.18
Gray’s separation from, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 4.6–4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10–4.11, 4.12
in Australia trip, 3.1–3.2
in Cambodia visit, 3.1–3.2
in cross-country trip, 3.1, 3.2–3.3
in Gray’s dreams, 3.1–3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 5.1
in Nicaragua trip, 3.1–3.2, 3.3
Shakespeare, William, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
Shepard, Jesse, 3.1
Shepard, Sam, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Sherman, Cindy, 2.1
Show People, 5.1
Silver Hill, 5.1–5.2, 5.3
Sis (stepmother), 3.1, 3.2–3.3
Smalec, Theresa, 5.1
Smoke (film), 4.1
Society for the Performing Arts, 5.1
Soderbergh, Steven, Int.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
SoHo Booking, 4.1
SoHo Community Council, 2.1
SoHo Weekly News, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 4.1
Spacek, Sissy, 2.1
Spencer, Paul, 5.1
Spiegelman, Art, 3.1
Spilka, Mark, 4.1
Staten Island Ferry, 5.1, 5.2–5.3
Stein, Freya, 4.1
Stein, Robby, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3–5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7–5.8
Steve (performer), 2.1
Stevens, Hank, 3.1
Stevens, Jay, 4.1
Stevens, Wallace, 3.1–3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Stevenson, Adlai, 5.1
Stieg, Dr., 5.1–5.2, 5.3
Stockton, Philip, 3.1
Stoltz, Eric, 3.1
Stone, Laurie, 4.1, 4.2–4.3
Stone, Oliver, 5.1
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (Stevens), 4.1
Straight Talk (film), 4.1
Strasburg, Ivan, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Studio 54 2.2
Suon (Cambodian), 3.1
Swain, John, 3.1
Swimming to Cambodia (Gray), Int.1, Edi.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2–4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
assessment of, 3.1–3.2
film version of, 3.1, 3.2–3.3
premiere of, 3.1, 3.2–3.3
“Synchronicity” (song), 3.1
Talen, Bill, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1
Talk to the Nation (radio show), 4.1
Tate, Sharon, 2.1
Taylor, Juliet, 3.1–3.2, 3.3
Terrors of Pleasure (Gray) Int.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Tharp, Twyla, 4.1
theater, 1.1, 1.2–1.3, 1.4–1.5
Thoreau, Henry David, 1.1
Three Places in Rhode Island (Gray), Int.1, 2.1, 2.2
Three Sisters (Chekhov), 4.1
Times (London), 3.1
Tinky (uncle), 3.1
’ Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Ford), 1.1
To Kill an Mockingbird (film), 3.1
Tomlin, Lily, Int.1, 3.1
Tom Paine (Foster), 1.1–1.2
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The, Int.1
Tooth of Crime, The (Shepard), 2.1, 3.1
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
True Stories (film), 3.1
Trying Times (TV series), 3.1
“Two Lives and a Trilogy” (Wooster Group), 2.1
Twombly, Cy, 2.1
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera), 4.1–4.2
USA Today, 3.1
Vanity Fair, 3.1
Variety (film), 3.1
Vawter, Ron, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Vidal, Gore, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2
Village Voice, 1.1, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Virginia Woolf’s Quarrel with Grieving (Spilka), 4.1
Vogue, 4.1
Wang, Wayne, 4.1
Washington Post, 3.1
Washington Square Arts, 4.1
Waterston, Sam, 3.1–3.2, 3.3
Watts, Alan, 1.1
Watts, Mrs, 1.1
Waves, The (Woolf), 3.1, 3.2
Way of the World, The (Congreve), 1.1
WBAI, 3.1
What’s Going On (song), 4.1
Wheeler, Ira, 3.1–3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
White Noise (DeLillo), 3.1
Whybrow, Peter, 5.1, 5.2
Wilder, Thornton, 3.1, 3.2
Wilson, Robert, 2.1
Winnicott, D. W., 4.1, 4.2
Wollen, Peter, 3.1
Woolf, Virginia, Int.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Wooster Group (new), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1
Woost
er Group (original), Int.1, Int.2, 2.1, 2.2
World of Sholom Aleichem, The (Perl), 1.1
Youngman, Henny, 4.1
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Spalding Gray was born and raised in Rhode Island. A co-founder of the acclaimed New York City theater company the Wooster Group, he appeared on Broadway and in numerous films, including Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields, David Byrne’s True Stories, Garry Marshall’s Beaches, and as the subject of the 2010 Steven Soderbergh documentary And Everything Is Going Fine. His monologues include Sex and Death to the Age 14, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray’s Anatomy, and It’s a Slippery Slope. He died in 2004.
A NOTE ABOUT THE EDITOR
Nell Casey is the editor of the national best seller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family, which won a Books for a Better Life Award. Her articles and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Elle, and Glamour, among other publications. Her fiction has appeared in One Story. She is a founding member of Stories at the Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
ALSO BY SPALDING GRAY
Life Interrupted
Morning, Noon, and Night
It’s a Slippery Slope
Gray’s Anatomy
Monster in a Box
Impossible Vacation
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Swimming to Cambodia
In Search of the Monkey Girl
ALSO EDITED BY NELL CASEY
An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
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