In a morose end to the story of the missing monologuist, Spalding Gray was found dead today, his body pulled from the East River in Manhattan.

It's very sad to read that this great artist is now dead of an apparent suicide, just a few months after I saw his last experimental monologue. The story he related was about this car accident he was involved in on a trip to Ireland that left him severely disabled. My sense during and after his performance was that he was massively depressed and when he walked off stage he looked like a broken man.