The Adderall Diaries »

Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including Happy Baby, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. He is also the founding editor of the online culture magazine TheRumpus.net.

In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as “a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you’ve never quite seen it before.”

The Barnes & Noble Review

We're living in a time of doubt and cynicism, knowing we shouldn't believe the choreographed confrontations on "reality" TV shows but buying into the carefully edited dramas anyway. The problems of veracity even extend to our bookstores -- once places where we felt we could trust the neat divisions between the fiction and nonfiction sections, but which now seem to hawk their wares at any moral cost. It has become increasingly harder to read autobiographies -- those books touted by publishers as "true" by every dictionary's definition of the word -- without feeling like we're swallowing a large pill of skepticism.

Contents

Prologue....................3
Book 1 Preliminary Motions....................11
Book 2 The Trial....................113
Epilogue....................207