LOVE WITHOUT
Stories by Jerry Stahl

Paperback Original, July 2007
Open City Books

“A better-than Burroughs virtuoso . . . Stahl has earned the blurbs he’s picked up along the way from James Ellroy, Hubert Selby Jr., and Jim Carroll, and has the right to be counted in their skanky, stylish company.” —Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker

“Stahl’s brilliantly demented riffs deserved to be read—or screamed—aloud.” —Entertainment Weekly

A teenage boy’s mile-high tryst with a middle-aged widow . . . A love affair between a former junkie and an ex-circus midget . . . A salacious encounter with the vice president . . . The meth-frayed chronicles of a born-again call girl..

In stories of startling breadth and immediacy, Jerry Stahl plumbs the depths of romantic obsession, sex-crazed adolescence, family dysfunction, and other universals of American life. By turns vulgar and tender, wrenching and hysterical, Stahl mines his unique mix of savage humor, unflinching humanity, and unlikely eroticism from the wildest of encounters. Written over the past thirty years, this collection demonstrates why Jerry Stahl’s voice remains one of the most vital and uncompromising in contemporary literature.

Jerry Stahl's LOVE WITHOUT Book Tour
(all events are free, open to the public, and will include a book signing)

Thursday, July 12, 7pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble
Upstairs at the Square Reading
(with musician Teddy Thompson)
33 E. 17th Street

Sunday, July 15, 7pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street

Thursday, July 24, 7pm
Borders
2110 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90815
tel 562.799.0486

Wednesday, August 1, 8pm
The Writers Garage
at Dipiazzas Lava Lounge
5205 E. Pacific Coast Highway Long Beach, CA 90804
tel 562-498-2461