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Stephen Elliott

Stephen Elliott is the writer/director of the web series Driven. He is the the author of eight books including the novel Happy Baby, and the memoir The Adderall Diaries which was adapted into feature film starring James Franco. His article Silicon Is Just Sand is being developed for a series at A&E. His first movie,About Cherry, premiered at the Berlinale and was released by IFC in 2012. His newest movie, After Adderall, was the closing night film for the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival.

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My Father’s Murder

Stephen Elliott

My father may have killed a man. It was 1970, the year before I was born. The year the US invaded Cambodia and the voting age was lowered to eighteen. He was thirty-five, the ...

An Interview with Matt Bai

Stephen Elliott

I first met Matt Bai, political writer for the New York Times magazine, in Iowa, December 2003. We were following Howard Dean, the presumptive Democratic nominee. What we had ...

The Score

Stephen Elliott

An Interview with Anthony Swofford

Stephen Elliott

The New Middle East

Stephen Elliott

A Review of: Notice by Heather Lewis’s

Stephen Elliott

Small Battles in a War of Attrition

Stephen Elliott

My Final Days With Howard Dean

Stephen Elliott

Looking Forward to It

Stephen Elliott

My Father’s Murder

Stephen Elliott

Sep 1 2009

My father may have killed a man. It was 1970, the year before I was born. The year the US invaded Cambodia and the voting age was lowered to eighteen. He was thirty-five, the ...

An Interview with Matt Bai

Stephen Elliott

Jul 1 2008

I first met Matt Bai, political writer for the New York Times magazine, in Iowa, December 2003. We were following Howard Dean, the presumptive Democratic nominee. What we had ...

The Score

Stephen Elliott

Mar 1 2007

1. Lissette told me she was never very sexual with her husband. “In fact when we were first together we only had sex maybe twice a day.” I’ll let the absurdity of the ...

An Interview with Anthony Swofford

Stephen Elliott

Feb 1 2007

I first came across Anthony Swofford’s work when I read Jarhead, his spare and powerful memoir based on his time as a Marine sniper during the first Gulf War. Later I became ...

The New Middle East

Stephen Elliott

Oct 1 2006

What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing, the birth pangs of a new Middle East. —Condoleezza Rice We should go to the Arabs with sticks in hand and we should ...

A Review of: Notice by Heather Lewis’s

Stephen Elliott

Nov 1 2004

Small Battles in a War of Attrition

Stephen Elliott

Sep 1 2004

HOW TO MEET THE PRESIDENT It’s not easy to meet the president, but it can be done. The important thing is to sleep in your friend’s house in Dupont Circle. She’s a lawyer who ...

My Final Days With Howard Dean

Stephen Elliott

Apr 1 2004

FEBRUARY 8TH— PROLOGUE AS EPILOGUE There are facts and truths and political truths but there’s always another story and it’s hard, oh so hard, to trust the media. The ...

Looking Forward to It

Stephen Elliott

Sep 1 2003

JULY 2ND–3RD Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Washington, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Car Politics It’s been a long, boring summer and it’s only July. July 2003, to be exact, nearly a ...