Essays and Memoir: A Reading

Author of The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott, gathers personal essays, reportage, and profiles written over fifteen years to tell a powerful story about outsiders and underdogs, in Sometimes I Think About It. In his memoir, The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East, armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to “learn about the world 9/11 made us fear.”