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I FATTY
The strange, compelling, and occasionally hysterical story of Hollywood's
first celebrity scandal as told by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, the star at its
center.
"Finally, the true skinny on Fatty...Jerry Stahl brilliantly gives life,
voice, truth and respect to Roscoe Arbuckle, redeeming the unjustly
tarnished memory of a wildly great talent and great wild man." --Johnny
Depp
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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, however, gorgeous, whip-smart
Nurse Tina, who's just offed her husband with a bowl of Drano-laced Lucky
Charms, absconds with the goods. When Manny Rubert, a scarred ex-junkie
turned codeine-popping detective, is called in to investigate the "foamer"
hubby's untimely demise, love hits him like a wrench to the head. Soon
Manny and Tina are making plans of their own for the presidential pie --
and for their future together. But the meddling police chiefs and motel
room sex-change surgeons of the world just won't leave them alone. And
then there are those killer crackheads, still out there and closing in...
"Plainclothes Naked is vile, scurrilous, depraved...and hilariously funny.
Jerry Stahl should either get the Pulitzer Prize or be shot down in the
street like a dog, as he's clearly a menace to society and a traitor to
everything you thought you believed about America." --Anthony Bourdain,
author of Kitchen Confidential
"Jerry Stahl's writing is like comic machine-gun fire. Plainclothes Naked
is a page-turner and a page-burner. Fans of noir, fans of comedy, fans of
great writing can unite on this one." --Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra
Man
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PERV - A LOVE STORY
Set in 1970, when hippiedom was both groovy and shockingly ugly, Perv
tells the tale of teenage Bobby Stark, a kid who, as the saying goes, "If
it wasn't for bad luck, would have no luck at all." Bobby is on a quest
for finding true love with Michelle, the redhead that he's been
fantasizing about since grade school. On the way, he has some serious
roadblocks to deal with, including his mother -- who's been in an insane
asylum and still belongs there. He also receives "adult guidance" from a
one-armed barber, and has to put up with an alcoholic former co-worker of
his late father and a lecherous Boy Scout VP who counts Spiro Agnew among
his friends. Michelle, who is fleeing the Hare Krishnas when Bobby finds
her, has her own set of issues. She has memories of constantly being
groped by her stepfather, a man nicknamed "helicopters" for his huge
hands. Michelle also decided at the young age of 16 that "fucking is for
when you want something, love is something else." It's enough to make you
give up on humanity, except for Stahl's absurdist humor in chronicling the
young lovers' hardships: he makes us laugh, albeit uncomfortably, at their
escapades. Underneath all the violence and tragedy, though, Perv is a
beautiful love story about two kids who want, more than anything, to be
pure again.
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PERMANENT MIDNIGHT
It's not pretty and it's not "professional," but it's Jerry Stahl's true
story of his life as a writer. Beginning his career as a pornographer for
Beaver magazine, Stahl later wrote fake sex letters for Penthouse and
articles for Hustler before moving on to write scripts for such TV hits as
Moonlighting, Thirtysomething, and Alf, jobs that put almost $7,000 a week
in his bank account. This is also the story of Stahl's addictions to
smack, coke, crack, Dilaudids--you name it. Moving between $100 L.A.
lunches and meetings with Cybill Shepherd to dangerous scores in the worst
parts of the city, Stahl managed to lose his family, his house, his
screenwriting opportunity for the second season of Twin Peaks, and nearly
his life. Permanent Midnight is not for people with delicate sensibilities
or any other low thresholds for truth. Stahl's autobiography provides no
glitzy Hollywood confessional with raised letters on the dust jacket, and
it's not a self-help book on recovery. Instead, it explores, with brutal
honesty and humor, the author's struggle between the nightmares of
addiction and the nightmares of sobriety.
"Absolutely compelling... Permanent Midnight is an extraordinary
accomplishment... A remarkable book that will be of great value to people
who feel isolated, alienated, and overwhelmed by the circumstances of
their lives.” --Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn
"A cauterizing celebration of heaven and hell from one dope fiend of a
writer, giving up an apocalyptic glimpse of laughter with the Devil."
--Ralph Steadman
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