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Jerry Stahl
Pushcart Prize-winning author Jerry Stahl has written six books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight (made into a film with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson), and the novels Pain Killers and I, Fatty (optioned by Johnny Depp). Former Culture Columnist for Details, Stahl's widely anthologized... show more

Pushcart Prize-winning author Jerry Stahl has written six books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight (made into a film with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson), and the novels Pain Killers and I, Fatty (optioned by Johnny Depp). Former Culture Columnist for Details, Stahl's widely anthologized fiction and journalism have appeared in a variety of places, including Esquire, The New York Times, Playboy, The Rumpus, and The Believer. He has also written extensively for film and television, including the highest rated episodes of CSI and, most recently, the HBO film Hemingway & Gelhorn, with Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.
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Birth date: January 01, 1953
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LitReactor
LitReactor rated it 11 years ago
Title: Happy Mutant Baby Pills Who wrote it? Jerry Stahl, best known for drug addiction memoir, Permanent Midnight, which was turned into a film starring Ben Stiller. Plot in a Box: A corporate hack slash junkie stumbles his way through the dull wave of the directionless malaise that is th...
The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it 11 years ago
Manny Rupert is a former cop. He's kind of a former junky. He's almost formerly married to Tina, a woman he met after answering a domestic call during which he discovered that she'd murdered her then husband by putting ground glass and Drano in his Lucky Charms. (He didn't put that in his officia...
Rabbit Reads
Rabbit Reads rated it 11 years ago
This was really interesting. This collection of stories is gritty, and doesn't glamorize the use of drugs. Well enjoyed.
sheilaraeo
sheilaraeo rated it 12 years ago
This is a scary collection of stories. It should be required reading for high school - a sort of "Scared Straight" for potential junkies. The lengths the addicts went to to procure their fix was astonishing and heartbreaking. My favorite selection was the very first story "Fragments of Joe" by Tony ...
coffee & ink
coffee & ink rated it 13 years ago
Only read the Megan Abbott story, but that's all I wanted it for. A doctor is arrested for prescribing illegal and undisclosed drugs to his patients, after it all goes tragically wrong; his (remaining) patients are on his side. Not really about speed per se, I think, but that's not the point. The...
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