The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Graywolf Press) (author photo by Katherine Emery) "The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented -- they absolutely had to be lived. Elliott renders the extremes of his own existence with a fearless, through-the-windshield immediacy. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation. Once you pick up Adderall, you won't want to crash. I loved this book." --Jerry Stahl