Jerry Stahl

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Jerry Stahl
Stahl at the 2022 Texas Book Festival
Stahl at the 2022 Texas Book Festival
Born (1953-09-28) September 28, 1953 (age 70)
Pen nameHerbert W. Day
OccupationNovelist, screenwriter
LanguageEnglish
Period1976–present
GenreTransgressive fiction
Notable worksPermanent Midnight

Jerry Stahl (born September 28, 1953) is an American novelist and screenwriter.[1] His works include the 1995 memoir of addiction Permanent Midnight. A 1998 film adaptation followed with Ben Stiller in the lead role.

His works include memoirs, short stories, TV, films, and Novels. He wrote novels including Bad Sex On Speed (2013), Happy Mutant Baby Pills: A Novel (2013), and a short story Love Without: Stories (2007).

Stahl has worked extensively in film and television. He married Zoe Hansen on August 20, 2023.

Early life

Stahl grew up in

coal miner.[citation needed
]

At the age of 16, Stahl was sent to a boarding prep school near Philadelphia.[5] He attended Columbia University.[1] Post-college he traveled, living in Greece—in caves outside of Matala, on Crete, the streets of Paris, then London, where he landed a job as a bartender at an Irish pub.[citation needed] He later returned to America to live in New York City, where he became a writer.

Career

Stahl began publishing short fiction, won a

Transatlantic Review, and made a living writing for magazines and doing porn stories for cash.[1] One writing job as humor editor for Hustler meant moving to Columbus, Ohio and living at the YMCA until the magazine moved its headquarters to California. Stahl lost his job six months to the day after taking it and ended up on unemployment in California, alongside an escalating heroin dependency, which eventually led to his contracting hepatitis C.[6]

He would go on to become a writer for the 1980s TV series

Thirtysomething, and Moonlighting.[1] In 1990 he would also write an episode each for Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure; his work on the former was described by series co-creator Mark Frost as "an absolute car wreck... He turned in a completely incomprehensible, unusable, incomplete script a few days late and as I recall there were blood stains on it."[7] He has also acted in seven films.[1]

Permanent Midnight, his 1995 memoir, was adapted by Stahl into a 1998 film of the same name starring Ben Stiller that raised Stahl's profile and set the stage for his ongoing work in film.[8] He wrote the screenplay for Bad Boys II, which starred Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. His novels Perv: A Love Story and Plainclothes Naked enjoyed moderate success. I, Fatty, a fictional autobiography of legendary movie comedian Roscoe Arbuckle received a favorable review from Thomas Mallon in The New Yorker and attracted attention from a variety of national media.[8] According to Stahl, Johnny Depp has optioned the film rights for I, Fatty.[9] Stahl edited The Heroin Chronicles (Akashic Books 2013), a collection of stories by various authors.[10][11]

Stahl has also written a number of

Parents Television Council declared it was the worst television show of the week.[15]

Stahl and

Barbara Turner wrote a screenplay for an HBO film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn entitled Hemingway & Gellhorn starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman.[16] James Gandolfini served as executive producer to the film, which was directed by Philip Kaufman
and first aired on HBO on May 28, 2012.

Works

Memoir

  • Permanent Midnight (1995)
  • OG Dad (2015)
  • Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust (2022)

Novels

Short stories

  • Love Without: Stories (2007)

Multiple author collections

  • The Heroin Chronicles (2013) (editor and contributor)

Films

Film work includes:

As Herbert W. Day:

Television

  • ALF:
    • "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?" (1986)
    • "La Cucaracha" (1987)
    • "Mind Games" (1989)
  • thirtysomething
    :
  • Moonlighting:
    • "Plastic Fantastic Lovers" (1989)
    • "Perfect" (1989)
  • Twin Peaks (1990)
  • Northern Exposure (1990)
    • "
      Soapy Sanderson
      "
  • CSI:
    • "
      Justice Is Served
      " (2001)
    • "
      Slaves of Las Vegas
      " (2001)
    • "
      Felonious Monk
      " (2002)
    • "
      The Hunger Artist
      " (2002)
    • "Fur and Loathing" (2003)
    • "
      Getting Off
      " (2004)
    • "
      Ch-Ch-Changes
      " (2004)
    • "
      King Baby
      " (2005)
    • "
      Pirates of the Third Reich
      " (2006)
    • "
      Way To Go
      " (2006)
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn (2011 HBO movie)
  • Maron
    • "White Truck" (2014)
    • "Professor of Desire" (2015)
    • "Anti-Depressed" (2015)
    • "Spiral" (2015)
    • "The 13th Step" (2016)
    • "Sobriety Bush" (2016)
    • "Bookstore" (2016)
  • Escape at Dannemora (2018 Showtime miniseries)
    • "Part 3"
    • "Part 6" (with Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Jerry Stahl". Literature Resource Center. Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. October 8, 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-24.(subscription required)
  2. ^ "StackPath".
  3. ^ "BN No Results Page".
  4. ^ "Greenberg". 16 March 2010.
  5. ^ a b McKenna, Kristine (November 21, 2001). "Death on the inStahlment plan". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  6. ^ Himmelsbach, Erik (October 19, 1999). "Celebrity junkie". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
  7. ^ Dukes, Bill. Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks (Nashville: short/Tall Press 2014) p.188
  8. ^ a b Dreher, Christopher (December 6, 2004). "All my heroes were dope fiends". Salon. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  9. ^ Charles, Marissa (October 27, 2009). "Jerry Stahl". Metro. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  10. ^ "The Heroin Chronicles". Publishers Weekly. November 12, 2012. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  11. ^ Young, Royal. "Jerry Stahl talks smack". Interview. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  12. ^ a b Keveney, Bill (February 8, 2006). "Why Not 'CSI: Kink'?". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17.
  13. ^ "CSI Sensationalizes Transgender Lives". GLAAD. January 25, 2002. Archived from the original on 2003-07-28. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
  14. AfterEllen.com. p. 3. Archived from the original
    on September 29, 2007. Retrieved 2006-10-01.
  15. Parents Television Council. Archived from the original
    on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
  16. ^ Stanhope, Kate (June 16, 2010). "HBO Orders Hemingway Film With Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen". TV Guide.

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