Open your notebooks and fill up your glasses of water, folks: today we're looking at Steven Soderbergh's two documentaries on Spalding Gray. And Ian's pissed off! We're joined once more by our friend, writer and critic Rob Rubsam, to talk 1996's GRAY'S ANATOMY, a sort of longform music video for Gray's "monolog" of the same name, and Soderbergh's 2010 posthumous "autobiography" of Gray, AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE. How does a figure like Gray emerge and rise to fame? Where does we place him in the long tradition of neurotic white guys who make everything about themselves? Is Jake one of those? And why is Ian so mad about this guy? We answer these questions and more - check it out.

Further Reading:

"The Catastrophe" by Oliver Sacks

"Vanishing Act" by Alex Williams

"In New Film, Spalding Gray Tells His Own Tale" by Karen Michel

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Me Talk Pretty One Day, etc. by David Sedaris

The World According to Dave Barry by Dave Barry

À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard

Anything by John Berger

Further Viewing:

MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Malle, 1981)

SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA (Demme, 1987)

VANYA ON 42ND STREET (Malle, 1994)

JOHN MULANEY: NEW IN TOWN (Polito & Szymanski, 2012)

MIKE BIRBIGLIA: MY GIRLFRIEND'S BOYFRIEND (Barrish, 2013)

PARKER GAIL'S LOCATION IS EVERYTHING (Buono & Thomas, 2016)

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