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Friday, September 23, 2005 You know you're famous when... This is so unfair! I went on Sunday to get a bagel. I was splurging. I ordered lox, easy onions, also an orange juice, and a coffee. Originally I ordered it to go, but then I sat down and ate it in the shop anyway. It was pretty good. I was wearing a Happy Baby shirt, because, well, I was only a block away from my house, I was just grabbing a bagel, I don't know. But my sister sent me a box of these shirts and I wear them as undershirts because I don't have any undershirts. Seriously, all of my undershirts are missing. Please send white undershirts, size large, or medium. Anyway, I got spotted wearing my own promotional t-shirt and written about by this person, who was kind enough to link back to me. I take full responsibility. Only a fool goes out in a shirt publicizing his own book. And I should know better. At the lit seminar this summer I was wearing a Happy Baby t-shirt as an undershirt and got called on it by no less than John Dee when I took my sweater off in the crowded bar beneath the hotel. I swore then never to wear my own promotional shirt. But it was just a block away. I'm not so used to this being recognized thing. If I was really famous would I still have three roommates and share one bathroom? On the other hand, I'm flattered. Even though she spelled my name wrong. posted by Stephen Elliott 5:52 PM | link | |
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"Any true love story, if told with the urgency and animal intelligence of love, isn't for the fainthearted. On every page of this profound, distilled work of art, Stephen Elliott wrestles with the unknown and unspoken essences of love, and articulates that unknown so beautifully, with such clear-eyed fearlessness... Imagine a glass of pure water with one drop of blood hanging in its center, about to dissolve... Then drink it and be transformed." -Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City "There's an emotional courage to these stories, and a sense of urgency, that are thrilling to encounter. Elliott writes as if his life depended on each sentence. It is not overstating the case to say that he does for the BDSM community in this book what Denis Johnson did for lost druggies in Jesus' Son." - Steve Almond, The Believer Magazine Best of the year: Salon.com, San Francisco Chronicle Reviews: Salon.com, LA Weekly, The Believer Excerpts: My Stripper Year, Just Always Be Good Purchase from Amazon, Powells, Cleis, and your local bookstore 
"Happy Baby is surely the most intelligent and beautiful book ever written about juvenile detention centers, sadomasochism, and drugs." - Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review Best of the year: Village Voice, Salon.com, Chicago New City, The Journal News Awards: Finalist Young Lions Award, Silver Medal California Book Award Reviews: The New York Times, Salon.com, Village Voice Excerpts: Stalking Gracie Part 3 Purchase from Amazon, Powell's, and your local bookstore 
"Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Richard Ben Cramer: the great, all-American genre of the political campaign in extenso (and in extremis) has had its Homers and Boswells. To that list we can now add Stephen Elliott. Hilarious, strange, electrifyingly written, and heart-pumpingly idealistic, Looking Forward to It wins every literary caucus and primary in a landslide." -Tom Bissell, author of Chasing the Sea Best of the year: Village Voice Reviews: New York Magazine, New York Times Excerpts: The Dennis Kucinich Polka, A John Edwards Almanac Purchase from Amazon, Powell's (cheap!), and your local bookstore 
"A Life Without Consequences was harrowing, hard as nails, brutal, and soaring. Stephen Elliott has to be watched, because he knows things almost no one else could." - Dave Eggers, author of A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius and What Is The What Excerpt: Adlai Stevenson House Reviews: Austin American Statesman Purchase from Amazon |
