Jerry Stahl, Author . Morrow $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-018556-5
Wanton violence. Crushing drug addiction. Sexual abuse. It's the world according to Stahl, back with a third tale of whacked-out people in a whacked-out world (after Perv—A Love Story
and a memoir, Permanent Midnight). The story plays out
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Jerry Stahl, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58234-247-4
Dedicated as ever to exploring life's dark and deviant sides, Stahl shows his heart in this sad, wild, uproarious faux memoir of silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Presented as if told to Fatty's butler—who wouldn't...
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Jerry Stahl, Author . Open City $14 (179p) ISBN 978-1-890447-45-8
Stahl's 1995 memoir, Permanent Midnight
(detailing his life as a drug-addicted TV writer), and three novels (I, Fatty
the most recent), have won him a fan base that shares his glee for the comically deviant, but even his most ardent...
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Jerry Stahl, Author . Morrow $24.99 (408p) ISBN 978-0-06-050665-0
The last place Manny Rupert wants to go is prison. But when the opportunity arises to investigate an inmate's claim to be Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, it's too much for the ex-cop-turned-PI—last seen in 2002's...
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Jerry Stahl, Author Warner Books $22.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-446-51794-2
This unabashedly lurid and often highly entertaining book traces Stahl's rise from Hustler staffer, to highly paid prime-time television writer, to his breakneck devolution into self-loathing junkie father and ``author of nothing but bad checks.''...
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Jerry Stahl, Author Warner Books $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-67218-4
An ""unabashedly lurid... study in self-absorption"" said PW of this memoir by the ex-junkie TV writer whose credits include Moonlighting and thirtysomething. (Apr.)
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Jerry Stahl, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-17094-3
Memoirist Stahl (Permanent Midnight) breaks into fiction with this sharp novel, which starts as a tale of wisecracking teenage malcontents and ends as blazing testament to the human ability to endure pain. The narrator, prematurely jaded 15-year-old
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Jerry Stahl. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-199050-2
Lloyd, a strung-out former Big-Pharma copy cranker—a “Side Effects Specialist” who coined the term “anal leakage”—narrates Stahl’s latest junkie novel (after Pain Killers and Bad Sex on Speed), as well as a prologue he accurately describes as “the...
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