Stephen Elliott is a 21st-century Renaissance man: a novelist
(Happy Baby, from McSweeney’s, is the best time-twisty
character study since Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow), memoirist
and erotic writer (My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me
Up), and the editor of an always-entertaining, literary-minded
blog, the Rumpus. His newest book, The Adderall Diaries,
combines all Elliott’s specialties into one mad explosion of a
book. It’s a thrilling mix of memoir, true crime, sadomasochism,
drug use, and boxing, and his most exciting book yet by far.
(Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. 7:30 pm,
free.)