Authors on the Web
Yahoo! News, May 18, 2012
...books for instances of profanity. The worst offender on the list was "Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines" by Nic Sheff (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009). That book, the memoir of a young man addicted to meth, had more than 500 instances of...
TwinCities.com, May 13, 2012
...award-winning essay, Evan Martinson- Packer, an 11th-grader at the Academic Arts High School in West St. Paul, said Nic Sheff's "Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines" made him re-evaluate his life. At left at the 2012 Minnesota Charter Public Schools...
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...
Huffington Post, March 2, 2012
...save a lot of people from addiction and drug dependence. Examining the effects of his pot-smoking days, memoirist Nic Sheff put it best on the website, The Fix, when he wrote: "For me, all these years later, I still suffer from all the fucking decades I...
Franklin Park Herald Journal, February 18, 2012
...Feb. 23. Join in a discussion of the Abraham Lincoln Award nominee Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. Books will be available at the Circulation Desk. Minecraft Building Competition: 1 p.m. Feb. 25. Join in at the Square and build the...
Franklin Park Herald Journal, February 14, 2012
...Feb. 23. Join in a discussion of the Abraham Lincoln Award nominee Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. Books will be available at the Circulation Desk. Minecraft Building Competition: 1 p.m. Feb. 25. Join in at the Square and build a...
Franklin Park Herald Journal, February 5, 2012
...Feb. 23. Join in a discussion of the Abraham Lincoln Award nominee Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. Books will be available at the Circulation Desk. Minecraft Building Competition: 1 p.m. Feb. 25. Join in at the Square and build a...
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...



