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Rumpus Book ClubWould You Like to Read The Adderall Diaries?
Update: As of September 1st this offer is no longer valid. You can purchase a copy of The Adderall Diaries from Indiebound. For tour dates and more information, click here.
Update: As of August 6 there are 349 people participating in The Adderall Diaries Lending Library. I think I could accommodate up to 400 people at this point, I think, providing everybody is good about forwarding the book in a timely manner.
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I’m offering to loan people copies of my forthcoming true-crime memoir, The Adderall Diaries.
The book will be published in September, but if you send an email to adderall@therumpus.net
I might send you an advance copy.
Here’s the hitch, if I mail you a book I’ll also email you the address of the next person to send it to. You have a week to read it, then you have to send your copy to the next address priority mail. Priority mail postage is $4.95. So this is not totally free. The easiest way to do this is by printing out postage at USPS.com.
In your email please include your address and a little bit about yourself. Priority given to people who are verifiably real.
A thorough review of The Adderall Diaries in Fanzine.
Here’s a conversation on HTMLGIANT about The Adderall Diaries Lending Library.
Here’s a review from The Velvet.
Here’s an interview from Chuck Palahniuk’s website, The Cult.
Here’s the Facebook Group founded by Jeffrey Blumenthal, “I Read an Advanced Copy of The Adderall Diaries.”
And here’s a related article from Salon.com.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Yes, I’d love to speed-read it and send it on.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
you have to send me your mailing address then
May 31st, 2009 at 7:29 am
look forward to our reading together. this way I can request the best parts. I have two ADD guys in my family, if Adderall has anything to do with that. nice work at the highline.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:19 am
This is a brilliant idea! Look forward to picking up my own copy.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
hell ya…let me know if you have any left and I’ll send you the address. x
June 8th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
We’re not going to run out.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:24 am
I am guessing you want to limit circulation to the US. Postal fees to Canada would be killer right?
June 12th, 2009 at 8:32 am
If you paypaled me $10 and were willing to mail the book back to the US I would send it to Canada. That’s what I did with someone who lives in Australia.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I actually don’t know how to paypal anyone. Could you either tell me how or tell me where I could find information on paypalling?
June 18th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
If you’ll spring for postage to Israel, I’m very interested in participating. My mailing address is:
POB 190
Pardesiya 42815
Israel
I’m a 52-yr. old freelance translator (Heb->Eng), voracious reader, amateur but enthusiastic gardener and practitioner of domestic arts (cooking, baking) and totally besotted grandmother of one, mother of two, and wife of one awesome poet – Ed Codish. Most days I think I’m real.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Living in Germany, I’ll wait to buy my copy, but may steal your marketing chutzpah for my own new book.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
So hey, how can I get you my address without giving it to everyone else on this site?
June 24th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Wow, that smiley is way more intense than it was before I pushed “submit.”
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I’m in Australia and would love to check out your book. Is there still a copy floating around my neck of the woods?
July 24th, 2009 at 7:36 am
there is
August 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
As a more-than-occasional-but-not-yet-problematic adderall user (off label prescription, no less), *and* San Franciscan, *and* frustrated writer (I’m doing technical writing right now…what does that tell you?) I simply must read this book.
September 7th, 2009 at 10:28 am
I would like to read your book and I promise to send it on to the next person.
Thanks for the offer!
September 7th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Hey guys, I’m afraid we’re all out.