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Permanent Midnight: A Memoir

Name: Permanent Midnight: A Memoir
Author: Jerry Stahl
ISBN: 9780446607261

by Jerry Stahl

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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, and descends into quasi-functional heroin addiction. Available now.

In the style and tradition of Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, a prominent television writer (thirtysomething, Moonlighting, Twin Peaks) and journalist relates the story of his descent into hell as a heroin addict, and then back out into fatherhood and salvation.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

An "unabashedly lurid... study in self-absorption" said PW of this memoir by the ex-junkie TV writer whose credits include Moonlighting and thirtysomething. (Apr.)