The Adderall Diaries

Purchase a signed copy of Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries directly from The Rumpus.

"Elliott may be writing under the influence, but it's the influence of genius."
- Vanity Fair

"Superb"
- Time Out New York (five stars, highest rating)

"With astute insights into anger, despair, drug use, sadomasochism, and the elusiveness of love and justice, Elliott is a poet of pain."
- Booklist (starred review)

"A remarkable achievement."
- Bookslut

"The book's most affecting passages are unlike anything being written today. They manage to fuse the radical subjectivity of the individual struggling to understand himself with a tender bafflement at the psychological evasions of modern life in America."
- The Boston Globe

"The Adderall Diaries, Elliott's most autobiographical work yet, is ambitious and emotional and brilliantly orchestrated, an embroidery of memoir and true-crime reportage that's so stunning that I can't imagine Elliott writing about the above-mentioned murder case without also confronting his past (or vice versa)."
- Fanzine

"'The Adderall Diaries' is neither a Kerouac-like brag, nor an Oprah-ready record of suffering and recovery. Rather, it is its own weird hybrid, a painfully honest and meticulously crafted memoir wrapped around a true-crime story that gets to the very essence of its time and place."
- The Los Angeles Times

"It opens with this line: "My father may have killed a man," then continues for 208 taut, high-wire, brilliant pages... I'm still not sure how he did it. With candor so raw it makes me never want to use "fiercely honest" to describe another writer's work. With a style of writing so unaffected and artless that at times you feel like you're reading someone's journal. You read this and you think, This is the truth."
- The Las Vegas Weekly

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