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Stephen Elliott's Lacerating, All-Over-the-Place Memoir Pulls No Punchesnew

Whenever I read or hear "meta" or "postmodern" or "fiercely honest," I usually head for a lowbrow potboiler. But I'm not sure how else to describe The Adderall Diaries, a fiercely honest, postmodern work that's also more compulsively readable than the most pulpish thrillers.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Steve Friedman  |  11-13-2009  |  Nonfiction

David Carr Asks Himself the Toughest Questions in 'The Night of The Gun'new

Before it delivers the inevitable jolt of redemption, The Night of The Gun is a maddening book, dangerous in large doses to anyone who has ever romanticized the outlaw appeal of the addict, frequently absurd and offensive to those drunks and dope fiends who have somehow managed to ask for help and get on with their lives.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Steve Friedman  |  08-15-2008  |  Nonfiction

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