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"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 Purchase from Amazon, Powell's, and your local bookstore  "An orgy of saucy 'politically-inspired erotica'"- Vanity Fair Reviews: Sacramento News and Review, Live Girl Review (video), Playboy Video Excerpts: Stephen Elliott, Jonathan Ames, Mistress Morgana (read by Rachel Kramer Bussel) Order from your local bookstore (best way), Skylight Books, Amazon 
"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 
On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark referred to a conversation in the Pentagon in 2002 confirming America was going to invade Iraq. He was also made aware of a top secret memorandum outlining seven countries after Iraq we were going to "take out" over the next five years. Most of us will never get to see this memo, but we know it exists. In the summer of 2007, over three months, editor Stephen Elliott, authors Jason Roberts, Eric Martin, and Andrew Altschul, and a team of fifteen college students, set out to re-create this memorandum. The results were seven essays, 100% factual, laying out in stark detail how the argument for invasion could be made. The lesson is obvious, but scary. In times when all the libraries in the world are available with a click of the mouse, anyone determined enough can manipulate the truth to prove a threat and present a plan that, if taken seriously, could result in violent conflict. If you aren't already sure, this book will convince you of the value of a healthy sceptisism when our leaders push us to war. Purchase from McSweeney's, Booksmith, Powell's, and Amazon 
"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 |
