The monologist and self-styled “poetic journalist” Spalding Gray is one of the younger members of the older parent’s club. He’ll turn seventy before his oldest son turns twenty, eighty by the time his youngest hits twenty five.
There are older and more famous members of the older parent’s club: Paul Simon, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty – and author Saul Bellow fathered a child in his eighties. Odd Couple actor Tony Randall sired in his seventies.
Spalding Gray has been through the terrible two’s in his sagging fifties – and he’s got a better than average chance of seeing his boys find gainful employment. Before he gets there, though, he’s got to deal with all the midnight wake-ups, all the tripping over toys, all the carpooling that most people have put past them by the time they’ve reached middle age.
Spalding Gray’s first hand report from the frontlines of fatherhood at fifty is on this hour.
(Hosted by Michael Goldfarb)
Guests:
Spalding Gray