Salon.com has posted a great interview with Stephen Elliot, author most recently of The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder. In both the article and the book, Elliot discusses his childhood (drug-addled), his relationship with his father (fraught), his opinion of 60 Minutes ("exploitative") and his cagey plan to get advance buzz … Continue reading "I’m still taking Adderall, but I’m against it."
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Twin Cities Book Festival Authors Announced
The Twin Cities Book Festival has announced some of the authors who will be reading at this year's event, and it's a list full of big names. Among the attendees will beNicholson Baker (Vox, The Mezzanine)Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, They Whisper)Lorrie Moore (Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Birds … Continue reading Twin Cities Book Festival Authors Announced
I Might Actually Buy That
It's a strange day when Yale University Press appears in the New York Times' blog The Moment, which more often chronicles $600 Armani tshirts and other such nonessentials. But that's just what happened today when the blog posted an item about Lived in London: Blue Plaques and The Stories Behind Them. The book, out this … Continue reading I Might Actually Buy That
Musings from Magers and Quinn 