Alt Wire is a digest of spoon-fed inspiration curated by our favorite editors, journalists, artists, and visionaries. Today's guest is Stephen Elliott, editor of The Rumpus. 

It's Nice That: A relaxing place. The design is amazing.

HTMLGIANT: I shouldn't be name dropping HTMLGIANT because they're likely to put The Rumpus out of business, but when I feel like literary discussion this is where I go. I'm also very fond of The Millions, Maud Newton, and Bookslut.

New York Times: Here's something you've already heard of. I go to this site more than any other. I think most of us do. We all complain about it but is there any other news website you can actually trust? We should be more supportive of the Times, I think.

Carnal Nation: Good sex writing.

The Lefsetz Letter: This is just great writing about the music industry. But it's much better when you subscribe to it as an email.

BIO: Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries which was the best book of the year in Time Out New York, a best of 2009 in Kirkus Reviews, and one of 50 notable books in the San Francisco Chronicle. Elliott's writing has been featured in The New York Times, and The Believer. He is the editor of The Rumpus.

In the category of brilliant ideas: If you make less than $25,000/year, you can request a free galley copy of Stephen Elliott’s true-crime memoir The Adderall Diaries, released today from Graywolf Press. (Galleys are those advance reader copies, soft-cover editions that sometimes find homes in reading programs and the like, but too often end up in recycling bins.)

Read about the free book offer at The Rumpus, which Elliott edits, plus details of his book tour.

Source: Graywolf Press, The Rumpus