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Stephen Elliott visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "The Adderrall Diaries". This event took place on December 15, 2...
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Stephen Elliott visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "The Adderrall Diaries". This event took place on December 15, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Ninas former lover, and Hanss former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of.
At the time of Sturgeons confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writers block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Franciscos underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliotts own father.
So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hiltons celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation.
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The Musicians@Google program welcomed Tony Fletcher to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music fro...
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The Musicians@Google program welcomed Tony Fletcher to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York".
"The book starts with Cubop/Jazz, continues through the Brill/Music building era around the time of World War II, continues on to Teenage, Folk, Rock 'N' Roll, Psychedelic, right on through to the beginning of the punk era in 1977. Investigations abound, into things such as: how the music industry changed once recorded music became the "norm" (vs. live music), Phil Spector, the West Village and the "Cafe" scene of the early 60's, the East Village, the West Village, the competitiveness of jazz venues in the 30's and 40's, and basically everything about music in New York within its 50-year purview."
This event took place on November 13, 2009.
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Author, filmmaker, and screenwriter Jennifer Jordan visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss "Women of K2" which she wro...
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Author, filmmaker, and screenwriter Jennifer Jordan visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss "Women of K2" which she wrote and produced for the National Geographic Channel. This event took place on November 12, 2008.
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Internet media entrepreneur Ben Huh visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to talk about the book Fail Nation, and the user-generated conte...
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Internet media entrepreneur Ben Huh visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to talk about the book Fail Nation, and the user-generated content phenomenon. This event took place on October 23, 2009.
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OneRepublic visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters as part of the Musicians@Google series.
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