Jerry Stahl

...Russia, became a federal judge, though his working class roots include a stint as a coal miner. After the untimely loss of his father, Stahl's education proved to be a commanding culture shock. He moved from being a kid educated in a lower...

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...Rod Coronado, "Operation Bite Back," came out in June, and others. Other notable authors scheduled to appear include Carol Leifer, Jerry Stahl, Francesca Lia Block and mystery writers Gary Phillips and Charlie Huston. Eric Nakamura and...

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...when he was in movie jail after the failure of "Cable Guy," which he had directed. He says he went to Stahl to help him with the rewrite because "I knew he was a good writer and I was scared out of my mind to try to do it alone." They...

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...Woodard. The sequel, Down and Out on Murder Mile was released by Harper Perennial as a mass market paperback in November 2008. Jerry Stahl said of Down and Out on Murder Mile: "I fucking loved it." He also co-wrote the memoirs of NFL...

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...to acting for a while. Sammy was down. Then Sammy was up. With his collaborator, former television writer Jerry Stahl (Stiller is playing Stahl in this month's "Permanent Midnight"), Stiller wrote a draft of "Sammy" as a period film with...

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From Flannery O'Connor to Shannon Burke, the author of Permanent Midnight and Bad Boys II picks his favorites from the dark side of literature. His latest novel, Pain Killers, was recently released by William Morrow. "What I love about it...

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...and models in the one place that everyone can agree on: The Taco Stand! Today we'll be talking to novelist and TV writer Jerry Stahl, whose new book, "Painkillers" is the Citizen Kane of ex-junkie detective nazi science mystery prison...

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...to the L.A. Times serial novel "Money Walks" and will appear at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 26. In "Pain Killers," Stahl's dope-prone private eye Manny Rubert from "Plainclothes Naked" is sent to San Quentin by a...

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Sunshine and buttercups don't crowd the creative brain of Jerry Stahl. In each of his works, the novelist and screenwriter claws beneath the lacquered surfaces of society to fix his gaze on all things dark and grotesque. He wrote "I,...

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...hurt that Stiller -- who that same year broke out big in There's Something About Mary -- resembled Stahl. But PermanentMidnight, the movie version of Stahl's memoir about addiction and recovery, was a box-office flop. Stahl went on to write...

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