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Jerry Stahl

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About Me



"It's one thing, fine and rare, to write from the heart. It is another thing, finer and rarer, to write from the secret unutterable chambers of the heart. jerry Stahl, whose words are as cool and deadly striking as a cottonmouth, does just that. No one who reads him will remain quite the same." --Nick Tosches

"Jerry Stahl's work fills the gap in American literature left void since the death of the late, great Terry Southern.” --Jim Carroll

"Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard." -- James Ellroy

"[Stahl's] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read--or screamed--aloud." --Entertainment Weekly

My Interests

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Books:


PERMANENT MIDNIGHT
"Absolutely compelling... Permanent Midnight is 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
"A cauterizing celebration of heaven and hell from one dope fiend of a writer, giving up an apocalyptic glimpse of laughter with the Devil." --Ralph Steadman
PERV - A LOVE STORY
"Dig it: Perv--A Love Story is a beautifully wrought and twisted ode to freaks, beatniks, hopheads, and the wild-assed and strange everywhere. Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard." -- James Ellroy
"Black comedy at its darkest--alternately funny, pognant, and neurotically absurd." -- Booklist
PLAINCLOTHES NAKED
"Plainclothes Naked is vile, scurrilous, depraved...and hilariously funny. Jerry Stahl should either get the Pulitzer Prize or be shot down in the street like a dog, as he's clearly a menace to society and a traitor to everything you thought you believed about America." --Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential
"Jerry Stahl's writing is like comic machine-gun fire. Plainclothes Naked is a page-turner and a page-burner. Fans of noir, fans of comedy, fans of great writing can unite on this one." --Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man
I FATTY
"Finally, the true skinny on Fatty...Jerry Stahl brilliantly gives life, voice, truth and respect to Roscoe Arbuckle, redeeming the unjustly tarnished memory of a wildly great talent and great wild man." --Johnny Depp

My Blog

NEW YORKER on the work of Jerry Stahl

WIDE TURNS In a new novel, Jerry Stahl channels Fatty Arbuckle. by THOMAS MALLON NEW YORKER Issue of 2004-07-05It says something that the most wholesome-feeling work in Jerry S...
Posted by Jerry Stahl on Tue, 23 May 2006 04:56:00 PST