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Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, and others join Stahl in mining the hazards of this deadly narcotic via original short fiction.
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Jerry Stahl
Fresh from the success of his hugely successful memoir, Permanent Midnight , Stahl makes his sensational fiction debut with this whacked-out, sometimes wrenching, tour de force that’s destined for cult-classicdom…
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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…
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Now in paperback and featuring an interview with Ben Stiller; a guided group tour to concentration camps allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and…
James Ellroy calls him the American hipster bard. In Plainclothes Naked, the darkly satiric author of Permanent Midnight and Perv–A Love Story turns his twisted wit, imagination, and no-holds-barred approach…
A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both despair and humor.
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was…
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From Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances; through Speed, an oft demonized and misunderstood drug and on to Heroin, long seen as the most ‘literary’ of narcotics -…
The master of absurdist postmodern pulp fiction ( Elle ) returns with his long-awaited follow up to the acclaimed Plainclothes Naked, in his most hallucinogenic work yet.
Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora’s grand…
A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor.
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Bad Sex On Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the…
James Brown
Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, and heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises, and…
Major contemporary authors offer a range of essays, memoirs, and poetry that brings fresh insight into the dark world of addictionNfrom drugs and alcohol to sex, gambling, and food.
Joe Clifford
Junkie Love follows the roughly ten years Joe Clifford spent wandering the streets of San Francisco and beyond, first as a wannabe rock star, and then as another homeless junkie…
John C Stahl,Jerry L Buchmeyer
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading…
