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Nic Sheff

Nic Sheff
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Nic Sheff

Nic Sheff is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. Still in his early twenties, he continues to fight daily battles with his addictions. His writing has been published in Newsweek, Nerve, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Tweak is his first book.

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Coming Soon!, December 20, 2011
...then there's an adaptation of "Beautiful Boy" and "Tweek," the books written by David Sheff and Nic Sheff that I did, which is really fun to do, to adapt two books into one, and a couple originals, so I'm in that lucky place where I got...
Windy City Times, September 1, 2011
...a "graphic lesbian sex scene between a 31-year-old woman and a 13-year-old girl." The school also yanked Nic Sheff's New York Times best-selling memoir Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines because of a "drug-fueled homosexual orgy." A new study in the...
First Amendment Center, August 29, 2011
...District removed Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood from the 10th-grade honors English list at Williamstown High School and Nic Sheff’s Tweak (Growing up on Methamphetamines) from the school’s 12th-grade list. According to the Gloucester County...
Northwest News, June 15, 2011
...advice book. On the subject of addiction, there’s "We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction," by Nic Sheff. The author’s first memoir, "Tweak," detailed his descent into addiction to heroin and crystal meth. In this follow-up, he continues with the...
Huffington Post, June 2, 2011
...How accurately do memoirs reflect the people who write them? Nic Sheff, our newest columnist, has a few thoughts on that. Read More... More on Oprah...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 25, 2011
...Candy! Oh, the Candy! Vicki on Candy! Oh, the Candy! Andrew on Candy! Oh, the Candy! Brittni on Nic Sheff: Astounding Speaker Susan n AZ on The Cat’s Meow Ellen Scott on Nic Sheff: Astounding Speaker Kathy on Nic Sheff: Astounding Speaker Carin...
Petoskey News, April 9, 2011
...father-son team that had toured the country both touting their new books about the dangers of drug addiction. Nic Sheff, author of "Tweak," and David Sheff, author of "Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through Drug Addiction," spent 2008 discussing Nic's...
Wastepaper Prose, September 14, 2011
...news that the Hunger Games movie has finished shooting...TWEET.Simon & Schuster Kids shared that Tweak by Nic Sheff has been banned and responded to the challenge...TWEET.Harper Teen showed you where you can get The Luxe by Anna Godbersen for...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com, June 2, 2011
...The Fix : How accurately do memoirs reflect the people who write them? Nic Sheff, our newest columnist, has a few thoughts on that. Read the whole story: The Fix FOLLOW HUFFPOST BOOKS ON Facebook: Like 4 Twitter: GET ALERTS CONTRIBUTE TO THIS STORY...
Books and Things, May 29, 2011
...From Goodreads: In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as a crystal meth and heroin addict. Now in this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay...
Addiction Inbox, May 8, 2011
...genre, Elizabeth Wurtzel, who, at age 35, wrote the addiction memoir More, Now, Again. And now along comes Nic Sheff to put them all to shame, making geezers out of every one of them.  Sheff wrote Tweak at 24, telling the world about addiction and how...