News Source: Gawker
| about 1 month ago
In the latest edition of the Gawker Book Club , we have Stephen Elliott discussing his murder potboiler-cum-memoir The Adderall Diaries with special guest interviewer Gawker special correspondent James Frey ...Why not join in? Stephen, author of the
News Source: Bookforum
| about 1 month ago
So opens Stephen Elliott’s riveting new book, “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder.’’ It’s the sort of line in which Elliott specializes: nakedly manipulative and all but impossible to resist.
News Source: Seattle Weekly
| 2 months ago
The first resident cook at California's Tassajara Zen Center , Edward Espe Brown wrote the Tassajara Bread Book in 1970, which became a canonical hippie cookbook. Since then, he has continued to teach both Buddhist practice and cooking skills—often
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| 2 months ago
As part of his Lending Library, Elliott offered to send you his book if you agreed to read it in a week and ship it to the next prospective reader. It's an intriguing and potentially dangerous marketing ploy to drum up word-of-mouth publicity,
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 2 months ago
To help guide your reading this fall and into winter, here's a sampling of new releases worth your attention. September "The Year of the Flood," by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/Nan A...The last from acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood examines a
News Source: Salon
| 2 months ago
The murder trial contained more twists than usual: At one point during the investigation Sturgeon cryptically confessed to "eight murders, maybe nine" of his own -- revenge, he said, for the physical and sexual abuse he suffered as a child in an East
News Source: SF Weekly
| 2 months ago
Through close reading of several new or forthcoming books by local authors, students will learn how weird and screwed-up their world, their country, their parents, and they themselves really are, but also why to bother being a member of the human
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 2 months ago
When a Fremont man and his fiancee are called to court this week in connection with the apparent slaying of their disabled 5-year-old foster son, prosecutors will be moving forward even though his body hasn't been found. More Bay Area News Louis