Stephen Elliott
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Stephen Elliott is an open book in 'The Adderall Diaries'The author draws upon his dark history amid boho Frisco in his searingly honest 'The Adderall Diaries.' Stephen Elliott started playing around with drugs at 10 and ran away from home when he was 13. He spent most of his teens in and out of... In this article: Stephen Elliott, Jerry Stahl, Hans Reiser, San Francisco, Po Bronson, Amphetamine, Ritalin, and Heroin |
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Gawker | October 13, 2009
Of Murder and Memory: Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries [Book Club]
...571 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site In the latest edition of the Gawker Book Club, we have Stephen Elliott discussing his murder potboiler-cum-memoir The Adderall Diaries with special guest...
In this article: Hans Reiser, San Francisco, Gawker, and Wired Magazine
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New Yorker: Everything | October 04, 2009
Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
...@ JOE'S PUB" The downtown series continues with an evening devoted to "Crime, Confessions, and Amphetamines. " The writer Stephen Elliott, whose new book, "The Adderall Diaries," hits all three of the evening's themes, will be joined by the...
In this article: St. Peter's Church, Amphetamines, The New Yorker, Fordham University, and Ogden Nash
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SFGate: Entertainment | September 24, 2009
Strummed stories never get old
...says it was a nervy Steele move and it worked. The Hot Type page in October's Vanity Fair includes a hometown galaxy: Stephen Elliott, author of "The Adderall Diaries"; Dave Eggers, whose book is "Zeitoun"; and Jack Boulware and Silke...
In this article: Pete Seeger and Michael Moore
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The Stranger - Slog | September 18, 2009
Today The Stranger Suggests
...witty between-song banter is worth the price of admission. (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, www.thecrocodile.com. 8 pm, $15, 21+.) Stephen Elliott is a 21st-century Renaissance man: a novelist (Happy Baby, from McSweeney's, is the best...
In this article: Happy Baby, Warren Ellis, Crocodile, McSweeney's, Time's Arrow, Martin Amis, Nick Cave, Mick Turner, and Jim White
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'The Adderall Diaries,' by Stephen Elliott
Article:'The Adderall Diaries,' by Stephen Elliott:/c/a/2009/09/11/RVBS19DIHC.DTL 'The Adderall Diaries,' by Stephen Elliott Meredith Maran, Special to The Chronicle A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder On July 7, 2008, at 5:03...
In this article: Hans Reiser, Oakland, Happy Baby, and San Francisco
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Fall books preview
...of books by Bay Area authors. Just a sampling of those on the season's local roster: Po Bronson, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Stephen Elliott, Kathryn Ma and Richard North Patterson. Also on the way are books about the Bay Area: "Erotic...
In this article: Knopf, Peter Mayle, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, American Civil War, Doubleday, San Francisco, James Ellroy, Paul Auster, and A.S. Byatt
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | August 29, 2009
True confessions
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Stephen Elliott recounts a bizarre murder trial, with detours through his own abused, troubled past Author Stephen Elliott combines his reportage with cultural criticism and personal...
In this article: Hans Reiser, Floyd Mayweather Jr., San Francisco, Solipsism, In Cold Blood, Oscar De La Hoya, and Truman Capote
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Observer.com - All Articles | August 24, 2009
The New Thing: Books Without Jackets
...No Impact Man by Colin Beavan, Viking's Bicycle Diaries by former Talking Head David Byrne, and Graywolf's The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott. What makes these books so unusual-looking is that, even though they're hardcovers, their cover...
In this article: McSweeney's
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Google book project far from settled
Complex deal The complexity of the agreement has led some to reject the deal out of hand, including San Francisco author Stephen Elliott. "The lawyers for the Authors Guild ... understand it, Google understands it, but I don't know...
In this article: Google Inc., Authors Guild, San Francisco, Revenue, Paralysis, Association of American Publishers, and Happy Baby
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Guide to Chicago | July 20, 2009
The Lending Library: A Stephen Elliott Experiment and Interview
...it through Facebook or Twitter, in an email or if I just stumbled across a headline on the web, but when I heard that author Stephen Elliott was sending around a limited amount of advance copies of his new book, The Adderall Diaries, for...
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Stephen Elliott (born December 3, 1971) is an American author and activist living in San Francisco who has written and published six books. He is also the founder of the political action committee LitPAC, which holds readings by authors to raise money for progressive candidates.
Elliott grew up in Chicago. He was made a ward of the court in his teen years and placed in several group homes. He attended the University of Illinois and went on to receive his master's degree from Northwestern University. He was the Marsh McCall lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
Stephen Elliott was awarded the 2001 Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, given to emerging writers in fiction and poetry.
Stephen Elliott went on the campaign trail and wrote a book about the 2004 U.S. presidential race, Looking Forward To It: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About It and Love the American Electoral Process (Picador, Oct 2004, ISBN 0312424159). His novel Happy Baby was edited by Dave Eggers and co-published by McSweeney's and MacAdam/Cage and was released in February 2004. The paperback of Happy Baby was published by Picador in January 2005. His most recent book, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up (ISBN 1573442550), a collection of S&M erotica, sometimes referred to as a sexual memoir, was published by Cleis Press.
In April 2007, he published an essay about his experiment of not using the Internet for one month, writing "I could feel my attention span lengthening. I would think about problems until I figured them out."
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