790. Jerry Stahl

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Jerry Stahl is the author of the memoir Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust, available from Akashic Books. Stahl has written ten books, including the best-selling memoir Permanent Midnight, made into a movie with Ben Stiller; the essay collection OG Dad; and the novels Pain Killers; I, Fatty; Perv; Plainclothes Naked; Happy Mutant Baby Pills; and Bad Sex on Speed. A Pushcart Prize–winning author, Stahl’s work has appeared in Esquire, Vice, the Believer, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times, among other places. He has written extensively for film and television, including HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn, which earned a Writers Guild Award nomination; Bad Boys II; and the cult classic Dr. Caligari; series credits include Maron, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Stahl’s writing has been widely translated, and he has taught with the InsideOUT Writers program for incarcerated youth, edited The Heroin Chronicles for Akashic Books, and participated in the documentary series, San Quentin Film School. He has two daughters, and lives with artist Zoe Hansen. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, where is this, Bradson?
0:02.0	I love.
0:05.0	Woo!
0:07.0	Hey, everybody.
0:08.0	How are you?
0:08.6	Welcome to The Other People Show.
0:10.5	I'm Brad Listy.
0:11.4	I'm in Los Angeles.
0:12.5	It's good to be with you.
0:14.0	Thank you for tuning in.
0:16.8	Today on the program, my guest is Jerry Stahl,
0:27.6	author of a new memoir called 999. The journalism that I have always done, it's gonzo in the sense that I would put myself in these horrific situations like nude singles retreat at Elysium and Topanga,
0:41.2	where you have like the naked buffet where like your genitalia,
0:44.9	you're just gently brushing the chicken salad, you know?
0:48.8	And you're like, oh my God, I can't believe I've done this.
0:51.9	The difference is back then I was loaded, now I'm dead
0:54.4	clean. So it's just a way of putting yourself in extremist, which I think somehow adds to the
1:05.1	immediacy of the event. You know, if the audience, God bless him, can sort of feel something of what I was going
1:13.3	through, then I've kind of done my job. All right. That was Jerry Stahl. His new memoir is out on
1:23.5	Akashik Press. It is called 999.
1:30.3	One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.
1:40.3	And just for the sake of clarity, the title of the book, 999, that's the German spelling, N-E-I-N, which when translated is not the number nine, it's the word no.
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