In An Unnatural Pursuit Simon Gray wrote an 'hilarious' (Simon Callow) account of what it's like to be tortured, paranoid and a playwright. Here, in How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady? he takes on the United States - from coast to coast.'A wonderfully funny portrait of the playwright as xenophobic exile and committed slob.Gray is a fluent and compulsive diarist obsessed by a Pepysian regard for trivia; he sustains a perfectly pitched desperation with irresistible zest.' Michael Ratcliffe, Observer