Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Mans Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust

More Critical Praise for Jerry Stahl

forPermanent Midnight

A better-than-Burroughs virtuoso.

New Yorker

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

An original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own, and a ghastly, riotous humor.

Tobias Wolff, author of This Boys Life

Permanent Midnight is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was.

Booklist

Heart-bitingly real Compulsively readable. Full-blown, toxic funhouse horror Stahl has easy, loping, hepster story gifts Upfront, doggedly refreshing.

Bruce Wagner, Los Angeles Times

forPerv

Nothing short of pure genius. Hysterical, disturbing, insanely funny, Perv blows the rest of American fiction out of the water.

Mark Mothersbaugh, composer and founder of Devo

A biting and hilarious expos which reveals the American Family for what it really is, a horrifying monstrosity whose poisoned tentacles attempt to snuff the life out of you I laughed so hard I wet the bed.

Lydia Lunch, author of Will Work for Drugs

Dig it: Perv is a beautifully wrought and twisted ode to freaks, beatniks, hopheads, and the wild-assed and strange everywhere Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard.

James Ellroy

Imagine Holden Caulfield on bad acid Perv is the definitive young outsider story, told only as Stahl can tell it. Itll make you laugh at everything your parents told you not to laugh at.

Ben Stiller

It is one thing, fine and rare, to write from the heart. It is another thing, finer and rarer, to write from the secret unutterable chambers of the heart. Jerry Stahl, whose words are as cool and deadly striking as a cottonmouth in the moonless dark night of the soul, does just that. No one who reads him will remain quite the same, for in that dangerous night, amid its horror and wicked laughter, lie the powers of a writer as brave as he is gifted. Jerry Stahl is the real thing.

Nick Tosches

Jerry Stahl writes like the bastard lovechild of Terry Southern and Flannery OConnor. Perv is sexy, heartbreaking, and painfully funny.

Rosanna Arquette

Jerry Stahls Perv is Philip Roth in a head-on collision with Harry Crews. Naked, ugly, and funny. Hard to swallow, hard to put down.

Eric Bogosian

Utterly charming! Surely the most registered evocation of youthful phalli and pudenda since George Eliots The Mill on the Floss.

Mark Leyner, author of Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

forPlainclothes Naked

Stahl is the new king of black humor Plainclothes Naked is a hallucinogenic potboiler.

New York Post

Plainclothes Naked is vile, scurrilous, depraved and hilariously funny clearly a menace to society and a traitor to everything you thought you believed about America.

Anthony Bourdain

Absurdist postmodern pulp fiction It will unplug your mind.

Elle

Raw and devilishly raunchy.

Vanity Fair

Bare-ass hilarious A wonderfully sick comic masterpiece of the hard-boiled genre.

Paper

Jerry Stahls 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 A Man Named Doll

Brutally compelling.

Publishers Weekly

Stahls brilliantly demented riffs beg to be reador screamedout loud.

Entertainment Weekly

forI, Fatty

Finally, the true skinny on Fatty Jerry Stahl brilliantly gives life, voice, truth, and respect to Roscoe Arbuckle I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!

Johnny Depp

Stahl has earned the blurbs hes 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.

New Yorker

Stahls deep dedication to the whacked-out and marginalized helps him inhabit Arbuckles character sharply and convincingly.

Publishers Weekly

I, Fatty is all voice, and that voicewisecracking, shrewd, bawdy self-deprecating, and ruefulis a tour de force.

Newsday

As channeled through Stahl, Arbuckles memory is remarkably lucid, and his sense of pre- and post-gallows humor remains wonderfully intact.

Chicago Sun-Times

forPain Killers

From the opening gut punch this book had me laughing and turning pages. Jerry Stahl is Thomas Bergers wicked stepson and his new novel is a tour de force.

Tom Franklin, author of Smonk

Stahl claws beneath the lacquered surfaces of society to fix his gaze on all things dark and grotesque.

San Francisco Chronicle

forOG Dad

Listen up, Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennial Dads: the OG Dad has just plunked his creaky carcass down in the BarcaLounger and is about to spit some harsh, hilarious, and needful wisdom your way. Crack any of these essays and get smarter. Youre welcome.

Patton Oswalt

This book has more truth and humor in one sentence than most people experience in a lifetime. I know nothing about children, but if Jerry Stahl can be a dad again after his hell of a ride, hes just about the only guy that gives me hope that someday I could be a great father too.

Natasha Lyonne

No one can make me laugh while kicking me down the dark tunnel of self like Jerry Stahl.

Marc Maron

forHappy Mutant Baby Pills

Jerry Stahl is one of our last defenders against the darkness, and Happy Mutant Baby Pills is a deeply funny and devastating warning label for the world we live in, a world that is ultimately, as Stahl brilliantly demonstrates, one giant side effect.

Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

A dope-fueled hellride to the black heart of New Weird America. Stahl turns his satirical scalpel on Big Pharma, environmental contamination, conspiracy theorists, the Occupy movement, CSI, Christian singles, and adult babies, eviscerating our silly/scary society in search of its soul. Profoundly disturbing, profoundly funny, and profoundly moving.

Richard Lange, author of Angel Baby

If you happen to have a deeply twisted sense of whats funny, Stahl will tickle.

Los Angeles Times

ein,ein,ein!

One Mans Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust

Jerry Stahl

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Note: All factual errors are entirely the authors own. Some names have been been changed, and sometimes the author hallucinates.

Published by Akashic Books

2022 Jerry Stahl

ISBN: 978-1-63614-025-4

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021945693