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Is Stephen Elliott
"Jimmy Grace"?
The Outing of a Demi-Puppet
(Part 2) Click here to read Part One by Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter studied the tour stops cited by "Grace"-- such as
Tucson, Arizona February 1st-- then by searching on the Internet
found a sex tour which matched them: www.sexworkersartshow.
com/tourschedule.html Checking the bios (www.
sexworkersartshow.com/bios.html) he came up with the most
likely candidate: Stephen Elliott.
There are plenty of reasons for Stephen Elliott to be interested in
our arguments. His novel Happy Baby was co-published by
McSweeney's Books. It was also a finalist for a "Young Lion"
award. Young Lions is the elite New York literary organization
founded by Rick Moody. Stephen Elliott himself is the founder of
LitPac, designed to raise funds for "progressive" Democratic
Party candidates. Rick Moody is a board member of LitPac.
During the 2004 election, Lit Pac held a series of readings in
Ohio. Present at the first reading were Rick Moody, Dave
Eggers, and Vendela Vida.
Stephen Elliott's mailing address is The Grotto is San Francisco.
The Grotto was founded by Eggers friend Po Bronson. It's a focal
point of literary activity by the bohemian millionaires in that
town.
Stephen Elliott has not always moved among the wealthy
trendoids. He's from a tough Chicago-area background, was
raised by his abusive wacked-out father Neil Elliott, who
incidentally is himself a published author. Neil covered Vietnam
for Newsweek, published hundreds of magazine articles, and
authored several books, most of them in the 1970s. His best
writing days are clearly behind him.
(One of Neil's books, My Years with Capone, based on a series of
purported interviews with a self-proclaimed mob figure, has been
attacked by serious Al Capone scholars as a possible hoax.)
The confused facts of Stephen Elliott's life, a mix of early
hardship and early success, might be expected to leave him
confused about where he stands in the literary and social
hierarchy: With his rich benefactors Eggers and Moody, or the
underdogs of society?
This confusion is shown in a 8/8/01 interview Stephen Elliott did
with Mark Athitakis of San Francisco Weekly, at a time when
Elliott (who has two degrees) was teaching creative writing at
Stanford University. An excerpt:
"It's high school kids-- rich kids from all over the world," he
says, a little increduously. "We made this trip to a Giants game . .
. one of the girls' grandfathers owns the Giants. It's so ridiculous.
These kids are so rich it's crazy. Some of them have servants,
living in hotels. WEALTH."
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