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Jerry Stahl

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Jerry Stahl has written 8 books, including Permanent Midnight, Bad Sex On Speed, and I, Fatty. His new novel, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, is now out from Harper Perennial.
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OG DAD: Insane in the Membrane

  • Jerry Stahl
  • May 16, 2012
So, we’re back in the OB/GYN waiting room. Our baby still hasn’t come. The suspense, as they say, is killing me.
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OG DAD: The Texas Jew Panel

  • Jerry Stahl
  • May 11, 2012
For reasons I explained last time around, we are having our little she-creature in Austin, which has a reputation as the hipster heart of Texas.
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OG DAD: The Hum

  • Jerry Stahl
  • May 9, 2012
OG Dad will recount the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. And having a baby. Whereupon hijinks, cosmic and mundane, ensue.
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Post-Young: The Junky List (or the Incredible Weirdness of Not Being Dead)

  • Jerry Stahl
  • October 6, 2009
At seventeen, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes. I never actually thought I'd make it.
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Post-Young: Notes on the Not-So-Fresh-Faced Author, He Blogs

  • Jerry Stahl
  • March 11, 2009
To quote somebody far more incisive than me, “Once your book comes out, the weirdness begins…”
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Post-Young: Thank You, Dr. Death

  • Jerry Stahl
  • February 6, 2009
We live in heinous times. Times when it's nearly impossible to be shocked by the sheer horror to which humans subject each other.
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Post-Young: That Thing for My Mouth—Fear of Senility

  • Jerry Stahl
  • December 19, 2008
Ask any Hepatitis C veteran, and he or she will tell you about “brain fog,” the actual medical term for sudden, occasionally crippling bouts of fatigue and confusion.
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Post-Young: A New Blog By Jerry Stahl

  • Jerry Stahl
  • December 12, 2008
Dip a senior hammer-toe in the pool, and pretty soon you’re sucked in.
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