| April 23, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Jerry Stahl reads and signs from his new novel “PAIN KILLERS”
From the “brilliantly demented” author of Permanent Midnight and I, Fatty comes a novel of American Nazis,
Born-again Porn, Secret Pharmaceuticals, Felonious Love and One Very Disturbing German
“Stahl is no stranger to smashing social taboos, and his trademark blend of ballsy, blacker-than-black humor and wry social commentary lets him find humor in the third Reich.”
─Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Stahl fires off great, if rude, one-liners while raising disturbing questions.”
─Kirkus Reviews
Jerry Stahl earned a cult following with his gritty and fearless memoir, Permanent Midnight, a bestselling junkie confessional that drew critical raves. His subsequent fiction, including Perv: a Love Story, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty, established him as a sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious, but always unsparing and utterly original voice. Thomas Mallon, writing in The New Yorker called him “a better than Burroughs virtuoso.” James Ellroy dubbed him “America’s hipster bard.” And Entertainment Weekly praised his “brilliantly demented riffs.”