Stephen Elliott

Hans Reiser My interview with murderer Hans Reiser

Five days before the computer genius who killed his wife led police to her body, he was remorseless and angry in defense of his innocence.
  • How hard is it to write honestly about war?

    A haunting, minimalist portrait of modern warfare by former soldier Matthew Eck.
  • Impressions of Paris' last night in jail

    Deranged fans, enraged protesters and garden-variety rubbernecks converge for one big release.
  • My day at the Porn Palace

    S/M media giant Kink.com stirred up controversy by announcing plans to move its headquarters into San Francisco's Mission District. But for Kink's performers, sex is all in a day's work.
  • Salon Book Awards

    Our five-day book extravaganza kicks off with Erica Jong, Malcolm Gladwell, Curtis Sittenfeld and some of our other favorite authors weighing in on the best reads of 2006.
  • The softer side of S/M

    In his new collection of stories, Stephen Elliott examines his experiences with torture and love through admirably clear eyes.
  • Nude awakening

    It was a hot Chicago summer. My stripper year. My heroin year. I had a new college degree and nothing made sense. I was having the best time of my life.
  • A city in ruins

    Fear and violence lurk in New Orleans, where Geraldo Rivera mugs for the camera, transvestites bicycle down Toulouse Street, and rescue workers and reporters still wonder why so many people were left behind to die.
  • Gimme shelter

    Trying to force authorities to open an Air Force base as a shelter, Jesse Jackson and other black leaders picked up 150 evacuees at the squalid New Orleans Airport and headed into the night.
  • "I want to keep living here, but I can't"

    Along the Gulf Coast, the devastation is complete, with Biloxi casinos just stones along the shore. In Jackson, refugees wait for their next move.
  • "They've got to open the base"

    Louisiana black leaders, along with Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson, want to take Katrina victims to a shuttered Air Force base instead of shelters. And I'm going with them.
  • Darkness falls in Florida

    From the author of the grimly hilarious campaign memoir "Looking Forward to It," a final, post-election chapter you won't find in his book.
  • Politics as crack cocaine

    Novelist Stephen Elliott talks about John Kerry the guitar strummer and avid reader, George W. Bush the magnetic caveman, and his own loopy new book about the 2004 campaign.
  • "Happy Baby" by Stephen Elliott

    A young man miraculously survives the loss of his parents, a brutal group home and an abusive girlfriend with his soul intact.
  • Swimming with the online card sharks

    In the world of virtual Texas hold 'em, the money is real and so is the addiction.

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