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 The Adderall Diaries, a true-crime/memoir by Stephen Elliott, will be published by Graywolf Press in September, 2009. Until then (or until this is taken off the site) you can sign up to read an advance copy of The Adderall Diaries by sending an email with your address and a little bit about yourself to: "isaac AT stephenelliott.com." Here's the hitch, if mailed a book you'll also receive an email with the address of the next person to send it to. You have a week to read it, then you have to send your copy to the next address. First class postage is $3.07. So this is not totally free. Priority given to people who are verifiably real. "You don't just read The Adderall Diaries; you fall right into them...It's a brilliant book." - Roddy Doyle. "The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. Eliott renders the extremes of his own existence with a fearless, through-the-windshield immediacy. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation. Once you pick up Adderall, you won't want to crash. I loved this book."- Jerry Stahl "I felt like a voyeur reading Stephen Elliott's memoir--what is shocking and unbearable to most of us is commonplace to him. Although a murder trial provides the structure for this book, it is really about the strangeness oflife, about things that don't make sense and never will, about lessons that don't get learned, and ultimately about what we can and can't know about ourselves and others. Reading THE ADDERALL DIARIES is like taking a step toward the edge of a cliff so you can peer down and imagine what it might be like to slip and fall. Normally we shudder and step back. Stephen Elliott jumps, and his harrowing, riveting memoir convinces you to follow him vicariously." - Amy Tan Coming September, 2009 "Meeting The Murderer" from Salon.com 
"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 Download entire book as a pdf 
"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 |
