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An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives."--Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn"[Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso."--Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker"Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and...

Now in paperback and featuring an interview with Ben Stiller, a guided group tour to concentration camps allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor

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A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor.

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An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives."--Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn"[Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso."--Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker"Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and...

Featuring interviews with Chris Hardwick on The Nerdist Podcast and Marc Maron on WTF with Marc MaronBad Sex On Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge are at once devastating, hysterical, and-perhaps most terrifying of all-going on all around yo...

Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize"—sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical.Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee bre...

James Ellroy calls him the American hipster bard. In "Plainclothes Naked, " the darkly satiric author of "Permanent Midnight" and "Perv--A Love Story" turns his twisted wit, imagination, and no-holds-barred approach to the detective novel.

Down-and-out ex-cop and not-quite-reformed addict Manny Rupert accepts an undercover job to find out if a California prison inmate is who he claims to be: Josef Mengele, aka the Angel of Death. Did the sadistic legend, whose Auschwitz crimes still horrify, fake his own death thirty years ago? Suddenly Manny finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy involving genocide, drugs, eugenics, human experiments, and America's secret history of collus...

Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, and others join Stahl in mining the hazards of this deadly narcotic via original short fiction.

From the bestselling author of the memoir "Permanent Midnight" and the novel "I, Fatty" comes a long-awaited collection of short stories. Stahls perverse yet often touching tales plumb the depths of eccentric romance, sex-starved adolescence, mid-life crisis, and family dysfunction.

Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and into sobriety. In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film version of Permanent Midnight to much acclaim. N...

Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of a former television writer who lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts, and descends into a quasi-functional heroin addiction.

Old Guy Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the autumn of his years-or at least the pre-autumn-discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. He is going to be a father. Again. Only this time he wants to do it right: no heroin, plenty of low-back pain. A collection of celebrated columns from The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG Dad finds Jerry Stahl fighting a terminal disease-not to mention mortality, sleeplessness, an...

Jerry Stahl racconta le avventure di un uomo che giunto al proverbiale autunno dei suoi anni scopre che la sua ragazza è incinta. Diventerà padre. Un'altra volta. Solo che adesso è più anziano e dovrà gestire la nuova paternità senza più eroina, e con un sacco di mal di schiena in più. Con questo libro Stahl torna a offrirci il suo stile confessionale, autobiografico e sporco, quello che ha contribuito ad alimentarne il culto a partire da "Mez...