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.
He currently lives in Los Angeles..
He is author of the novels Perv: A Love Story , Plainclothes Naked and I, Fatty , the paperback edition of which will appear in 2005.
Jerry Stahl was born in Pittsburgh.
Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs.
Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and a ghastly, riotous humor.--Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy\'s Life Permanent Midnight 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.-- Booklist A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety.
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. . . .
An extraordinary accomplishment.
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
