Stephen Elliott, Author . MacAdam/Cage $19.50 (145p) ISBN 978-1-931561-18-1
Blearily fatalistic and oddly elegiac, this second novel by Elliott (A Life Without Consequences) tells the story of two strippers and a call girl who roam grimy Halsted Street on Chicago's dark underside. Anthony, 34, still dances for a living,
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Stephen Elliott. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-55597-775-7
In 13 essays that compare favorably to the best of 1960s New Journalism, Elliott (The Adderall Diaries) explores the traumas of his own life and also reports on culturally loaded news stories, often centered in California. In the former category,...
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Stephen Elliott, Author . MacAdam/Cage and McSweeney's $21 (191p) ISBN 978-1-931561-62-4
A craving for pain is the only constant in the life of Theo, a victim of the child welfare system, in this grim, unrelenting fourth novel by Elliott (What It Means to Love You
, etc.). Told in reverse chronological order, it begins when 36-year-old...
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Stephen Elliott, Author . Cleis $13.95 (122p) ISBN 978-1-57344-255-8
Elliott's previous episodic novel, Happy Baby
, was about a masochistic man, Theo, who was coming to terms with being an abused juvenile. The narrator of these 11 linked tales, usually called Theo, practices "consensual sadomasochism."...
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Stephen Elliott, Author Graywolf Press $23 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55597-538-8
As a writer stymied by past success, writers block, substance abuse, relationship problems and a serious set of father issues, Elliott's cracked-out chronicle of a bizarre murder trial amounts to less than the sum of its parts. Not long into...
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