Stephen Elliott
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'The Adderall Diaries,' by Stephen Elliott...including the novel "Happy Baby" (2004) and the 2006 erotica collection "My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up," Elliott had a passing connection to a secondary character in the Reiser case and a desperate need for a story to... In this article: Stephen Elliott, Hans Reiser, Oakland, Happy Baby, and San Francisco |
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Wikipedia | September 25, 2009
Stephen Elliott (author)
Stephen Elliott (author) 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...
In this article: Stanford University, Picador, Happy Baby, University of Illinois, Northwestern University, McSweeney's, Cleis Press, Dave Eggers, and LitPAC
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | August 29, 2009
True confessions
...Elliott's speculations about his own estranged father, who claims to have killed a man to avenge a beating he suffered the year before his son was born. But Elliott invariably goes where his busy mind takes him. And thus we get excursions...
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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San Francisco Chronicle | August 19, 2009
Google book project far from settled
...author Stephen Elliott. "The lawyers for the Authors Guild ... understand it, Google understands it, but I don't know any writer who understands it," said the author of seven books, including "Happy Baby." "That's really enough for a...
In this article: Google Inc., Authors Guild, San Francisco, Revenue, Paralysis, Association of American Publishers, and Happy Baby
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Andrew Foster Altschul
...that raised money for progressive political candidates from 2004-2008. He is the books editor of The Rumpus, an online magazine started by Stephen Elliott in late 2008. Altschul was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and then a...
In this article: Andrew Foster Altschul, McSweeney's, Huffington Post, Stanford University, and San Jose State University
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L.A. Times - Books | November 02, 2009
Stephen Elliott is an open book in 'The Adderall Diaries'
...and out of group homes; as an adult, he stripped at gay bars for a year while shooting heroin. It came to a crashing conclusion when he overdosed. "People tell me, 'Oh, you've had a hard life,' " the San Francisco writer says at a shady cafe...
In this article: Jerry Stahl, Hans Reiser, San Francisco, Po Bronson, Amphetamine, Ritalin, and Heroin
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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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