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    <body><![CDATA[Best drug book of all time. Jerry Stahl sets a standard for memoirs most fall short of.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>&quot;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.&quot;-Hubert Selby, Jr., author of <em>Last Exit to Brooklyn</em></p> <p>&quot;[Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso.&quot;-Thomas Mallon, <em>The New Yorker</em></p> <p>&quot;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 a ghastly, riotous humor.&quot;-Tobias Wolff, author of <em>This Boy's Life</em></p> <p>&quot;<em>Permanent Midnight</em> is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was.&quot;-<em>Booklist</em></p> <p>A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, <em>Permanent Midnight</em> chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety.</p> <p>Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, <em>Permanent Midnight</em> is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs.</p> <p><strong>Jerry Stahl</strong> was born in Pittsburgh. He is author of the novels <em>Perv: A Love Story</em>, <em>Plainclothes Naked</em> and <em>I, Fatty</em>, the paperback edition of which will appear in 2005. He currently lives in Los Angeles.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[saw him du a reading @ handsome dick manitoba's...<br/>here in en-why-cee...<br/>th' place was pack'd t' th' gills...<br/>&amp; th' reading was freeking awesum! <br/>phunny as shit...<br/><br/>i arrived too late t' bring out mi camcorder...<br/>boy ( howdy ) if ANybody has this reading...<br/>ei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34536635">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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