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

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

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

The Washington Post - Carolyn See

What or who brings out the Yuck factor present in all of us? Jerry Stahl, a novelist and memoirist whose entire work is a study in self-hatred and garden-variety hatred, explores these themes with intelligence and compassion.

Jerry Stahl is the author of the bestselling memoir Permanent Midnight, which was made into a movie starring Ben Stiller, and the novels Perv - A Love Story and Plainclothes Naked. His fiction and nonfiction have been featured in magazines including Esquire and Playboy, and he writes the monthly Culture column for Details. He has also written extensively for film and television. He has one daughter and lives in Los Angeles.