Richard Grayson

On Central Avenue, I picked up a hitchhiker, a raven-haired girl coming from the public library there. She was very pretty, and her perfume made my car smell very good, if only for a little while.

Being a writer is terrific: in what other profession can you have an absolutely delightful day enjoying yourself and then come home at 11 PM to find that you have sold a short story?

I nearly choked on my turkey when Bunny told Grandma Ethel, in talking about her “mood” ring, that she was in a car with a guy the other night and the mood ring said she was “horny.”

I have achieved the goal I set for myself at the beginning of the year: I sold three short stories in 1975 – and I even got paid for them. . . I’m going places; I can just feel it.

In this behind-the-scenes extra feature, the show’s performers discuss their roles, their private lives, Lena Dunham, and other topics as they are interviewed on location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (PG-14)

A beef over the management of a rapper ends in death as the sudden appearance of a shark drastically changes the future for detective Claudia Cardinale and Brooklyn real estate. (PG-14)

In Washington Square you could have sworn it was summer. There were jugglers and musicians – guitarists, trumpeters and drummers – and peddlers and freaks and elderly people on benches and Frisbee players and older gay men.

It doesn’t feel like October at all, and if I didn’t see the salmon and russet trees in Prospect Park, I’d think this was the first hint of summer rather than its last breath.

Pretty much everyone hated Vice Media co-founder Gasbag McGilla, but who hated the man enough to kill him? Williamsburg detective Claudia Cardinale must find the murderer among thousands of suspects. (PG-14) [tc-mark]

She told me that I could come over to her apartment if I promised not to rape her. “I never rape on the first date,” I assured her, and she said, “With my Pro-Keds, I could probably outrun you anyway.”

Ace detective Claudia and her friend Bunny are enjoying a flexing performance when Claudia’s editor at Vice Media assigns her to solve Williamsburg’s latest mystery. (PG-14)

I opened it quickly, scanning the first line – “I’m glad to say that Robert Steiner, fiction editor, and I are accepting ‘Summoning Alice Keppel’. . .” – noticed a check for $20, and screamed, “Mom!”