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Friday, November 03, 2006 Your Favorite Author Wants You To Vote Dear Voter, Get a phone call on election day from your favorite author reminding you to vote. It's easy. All you have to do is send an email by Monday, November 6, at 10a.m. Pacific time to stephen@litpac.org. Include your name and phone number. You'll get an email back letting you know which author will be phoning you on election day, November 7. Authors making phone calls include: Po Bronson author of Why Do I Love These People Dave Eggers author of What Is The What and A Heart Breaking Work Of Staggering Genius Jonathan Franzen author of The Discomfort Zone and The Corrections Aimee Bender author of The Girl In The Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures Andrew Sean Greer author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli Anthony Swofford author of Jarhead Peter Orner author of The Second Coming Of Mavala Shikongo Rachel Howard author of The Lost Night Laura Fraser author of An Italian Affair Stephen Elliott author of Happy Baby and My Girlfriend Comes To The City And Beats Me Up Jennifer Traig author of Devil In The Details Vendela Vida author of And Now You Can Go Daphne Gottlieb author of Final Girl and Jokes And The Unconscious Audrey Niffenegger author of The Time Traveler's Wife Unfortunately we don't have the resources to honor requests for specific authors. Stephen Elliott posted by Stephen Elliott 3:12 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 |
