Fiction or memoir? Stephen Elliott’s blistering new collection inhabits a mysterious area in between. As with all his work, these stories have the raw ring of truth filtered through Elliott’s downbeat poetic sensibility. No subject is too controversial, no image too taboo to put to paper in these brilliant first-person narratives. Acclaimed by the New York Times, Elliott here confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski.
My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
Stephen Elliott reads a chapter from My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, a collection of true stories that wrestle with the unknown and unspoken essences of love. In "Three Men and a Woman" Elliott struggles to share his girlfriend with her husband -- and another man.
