{"id":1059,"date":"2009-11-02T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/the-torments-of-stephen-elliott.html"},"modified":"2009-11-02T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:08:00","slug":"the-torments-of-stephen-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/the-torments-of-stephen-elliott.html","title":{"rendered":"The Torments of Stephen Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Su8kBTsA0BI\/AAAAAAAAAfo\/qXwMCGeL3sw\/s1600-h\/SElliott2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Su8kBTsA0BI\/AAAAAAAAAfo\/qXwMCGeL3sw\/s320\/SElliott2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>SAN francisco writer stephen elliott is the baudelaire of the mission district. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>after reading his new book, &#8220;the adderall diaries&#8221;  &#8212; which begins with a possible murder and winds its way to a certain one &#8212; i wasnt sure what kind of guy i&#8217;d be meeting for my interview at alcove cafe in los feliz. this is a man with numerous drug episodes, childhood years in rough group homes, a heroin OD after a year of stripping, and a career of what i will call &#8220;unconventional&#8221; sexuality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>but the writer ended up being well-adjusted, an engaging conversationalist, and, like his very fine memoir, without an ounce of either self-pity or self-indulgence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-stephen-elliott2-2009nov02,0,2338761.story\">here<\/a> is my LATimes story on elliott.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i&#8217;ll just say one more word about the book, which is subtitled &#8220;a memoir of moods, masochism and murder&#8221;: i dont tend to read books about addiction, psychological flameouts, kinky sex, etc &#8212; i outgrew my interest in the demimonde (as well as alliteration) in my 20s. but elliott&#8217;s memoir is so crafted, so precisely distilled, so damned well written, it comes up with a blend of apollo and dionysus of the sort i have very rarely seen. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i also urge everyone to check out the blog he runs with a gang of other literati, <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/\">the rumpus<\/a>. today elliott has a new post about liz phair.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenelliott.com\/lydiaphotos.html\">Lydia Lunch<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN francisco writer stephen elliott is the baudelaire of the mission district. after reading his new book, &#8220;the adderall diaries&#8221; &#8212; which begins with a possible murder and winds its way to a certain one &#8212; i wasnt sure what kind of guy i&#8217;d be meeting for my interview at alcove cafe in los feliz. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,405,403,406,407,404,402,201,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-drugs","8":"category-memoir","9":"category-po-bronson","10":"category-s-and-m","11":"category-san-francisco","12":"category-sex","13":"category-stephen-elliott","14":"category-west-coast","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}