Jerry Stahl





Jerry Stahl

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born
January 01, 1953

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Jerry Stahl (born September 28, 1953) is an American novelist and screenwriter, He is best known for the darkly comedic tale of addiction, Permanent Midnight, which was revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers, as one of the most compelling, contemporary memoirs. A film adaptation soon followed with Ben Stiller in the lead role, which is widely considered to be Mr. Stiller’s breakthrough performance. Since their initial paring, the two have become lifelong friends and collaborators.

One of Stahl’s mentors and greatest influences, the late American Novelist, Hubert Selby, Jr. had this to say about Permanent Midnight, “Absolutely compelling... Permanent Midnight is an extraordinary accomplishment... A remarkable book that...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 1,690 ratings · 241 reviews · 11 distinct works
Permanent Midnight
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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I, Fatty
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Perv - A Love Story
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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Plainclothes Naked
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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Pain Killers: A Novel
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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Love Without
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007
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Mémoires Des Ténèbres
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The Heroin Chronicles
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The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin
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“I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney.

I mean, I’m not even gay. Not that it matters. Because when, to my surprise, I bumped into him — literally — at the counter of Heimler’s Guns and Ammo in Casper, something clicked. And I’m not talking about the safety on my Mauser.

You see, there’s another side to “L’il Dickens,” as the VP liked to refer to himself. Or, at least, a certain part of himself. En privado, he’s tender. He’s funny. He’s pink. And he’s a gun man, just like me.”
Jerry Stahl

“To me, God is like this happy bus driver... He’s like, driving a tour bus, okay? The tour bus is our life, only he doesn’t tell us the sights. He lets us pick them ourselves, see, and later we sort of find out where we’ve been and what it all meanns.”
Jerry Stahl, Permanent Midnight

“LOVE JUNKIE is so alive, it reads as though Rachel Resnick sliced open her heart, dipped in her pen, and chronicled her life of carnal and romantic madness in an ambulance with a bed in it. The result is a memoir of flesh and redemption, told with scorching intensity and clear-eyed, universal truth. As addictions go, sex and love possess their own brand of degradation and euphoria, and Resnick, like all great self-destructive artist/survivors, has clawed her way out of the abyss and crafted a savage, ass-wild language all her own to capture the need that drives her - and us - to dive back in. Love Junkie is a fearless, nasty, affectionate, weirdly spiritual, sex-soaked, smart and un-putdown-able Valentine from hell.”
Jerry Stahl

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