Jerry Stahl

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1998
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Permanent Midnight

    Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of Jerry Stahl, a former television writer. Stahl was an aspiring fiction writer who arrives in L.A. and lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts,...

  • Perv--a Love Story

    Set in 1970, in the last, dark days of hippiedom, Perv -- A Love Story is the saga of Bobby Stark, a sixteen-year-old batch of desire and angst struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo.As the novel opens, Bobby loses his virginity in a drug-ad...

  • Plainclothes Naked

    In a wildly careening plot that can only be described as crack noir, two pipeheads accidentally steal a photo of George W. Bush's presidential package and decide to blackmail the Republican Party. Before the crack-crazed thieves can follow through, h...

  • I, Fatty

    In this highly acclaimed novel, the author of Permanent Midnight channels fallen early-Hollywood star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty tells his own story of success, addiction, and a precipitous fall from grace after being framed for a brutal ...

  • Love Without

    From the bestselling author of the memoir Permanent Midnight and the novel I, Fatty comes a long-awaited collection of short stories. Jerry’s Stahl’s perverse, yet often touching tales, many of which first appeared in publications ranging from Pl...

  • Pain Killers

    From the acclaimed and controversial author of Permanent Midnight comes one of the most vividly subversive, savagely funny, and explosive novels yet unleashed in our tender century. Pain Killers is a violent and mind-wrenching masterpiece in the gonz...

  • Bad Sex On Speed

    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 voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerg...

  • The Heroin Chronicles

  • Happy Mutant Baby Pills

    Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize" -- sometimes by just sa...



  • The Hard Drug Chronicles

  • Nein, Nein, Nein!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jerry Stahl has published 11 books.

Jerry Stahl does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nein, Nein, Nein!, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Jerry Stahl, Permanent Midnight, was published in September 1998.

No. Jerry Stahl does not write books in series.
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