Jerry Stahl jerrystahl.substack.com

No memory of this whatsoever - which in no way means it didn’t happen…

INSOMNIA “Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” Friedrich Nietzsche

INSOMNIA New piece on substack open.substack.com/pub/jerrysta...

Thanks so much, Trent!
Definitely a little slower banging them out than the old days…
But really glad you enjoy—

Thanks for the recommend, Mark. Feeling’s mutual.

The Greatest Generation had it SO much harder than us. They had to go to Europe to fight Nazis.

IT'S A NEW YEAR Try and enjoy

New Substack ! open.substack.com/pub/jerrysta...

A CHRISTMAS STORY Jack Klugman shit in my face.

New Substack, A CHRISTMAS STORY open.substack.com/pub/jerrysta...

Kristen Lopez Presents FREAKS - American Cinematheque

POPCORN DISABILITIES drops on the 27th but you can get copies early if you come to my screening of FREAKS at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social on the 16th!! Buy tickets now!

www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

SATAN’S NOT A BAD GUY WHEN YOU GET TO KNOW HIM: Shopping with the Antichrist- new Substack post on jerrystahl.substack.com

L.A. Details.

This image includes:

a 5th Street “shotgun sign”

and

a Leonide Hotel “blade sign.”

I write about the weird origin of that very story in upcoming collection, “Gonzo Neurotic.”
Can’t believe you dug it up!

Dunno whether to credit Martin Lawrence, Ron Shelton or Jerry Stahl but every time I watch BAD BOYS II I have to post this shot... it cracks me up

I’ll be talking to Tom Lutz, founder of Los Angeles Review of Books, at Diesel Books in Santa Monica, about his new work.

So you caught
Caligari at 16?
Hats off! I’m sure you turned out perfectly normal. In ‘77, I watched Pasaloni’s deranged masterpiece, “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.” Did not realize we were the only people left in the theater until the lights came up….
No psycho-emotional fallout whatsoever.

Wear out your library card. Your heart should palpitate when you step into a library and smell all the books. Oh my. Such a rush to know there are always books you haven't read yet. True luxury of the mind. Growth and feeding of the spirit, decadence...

#writingcommunity #booksky #readingcompsday

Reading this while thinking about @elivalley.bsky.social's observation that a signed photo of Theodor Herzl, the founder of 20th century Jewish ethno-nationalism, hangs in a @nytimes.com board room. Looming over their every word. Timestamp: 00:04:57

_Some historians_ expressed concern at the political interference in an institution that was long viewed as independent.

I'd like to know which historians did not express concern at the inevitable "Slavery Was A Choice" exhibition.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

Great news. I loved these books.

One of my favorite books. Spectacular.

Thank you.
I’m glad the hospital shoe police didn’t get you. Croc Jail can’t be good….

Fungus and Fascism A Disease For Our Time

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Eli Valley’s ‘Tough Stuff’ A new collection presents the antizionist cartoonist’s provocative depictions of the politically corrupt and morally bankrupt.

Museum of Degenerates reviewed in The Progressive:
progressive.org/latest/eli-v...

A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university's new definition of antisemitism Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.

After Columbia buckled to antisemitic, thought-control fascists in the U.S. government, genocide scholars are now forced to leave their jobs:
apnews.com/article/colu...

Very sorry to learn that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the incomparable Arkady Renko series, has died. My deepest condolences to his family, including @luisacruz.bsky.social.

His final book, HOTEL UKRAINE, was published earlier this month and was a fitting send-off to the series.

Thank you, Gabino. I meant every word!

My agency shared some stuff on IG today to celebrate the reissue of Zero Saints. They included this blurb by the fucking legend @somejerrystahl.bsky.social. Ten years later and it’s still one of my favorites. Go read Jerry’s books!

NOCTURNAL ADMISSIONS On Charlotte Beradt's "The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation"

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Ruth López is a fearless defender of human rights & has been, for me & many others, a source of insight & moral clarity on the long list of abuses perpetrated by the Salvadoran govt. Her arrest (on highly dubious charges) is a patent demonstration of how Bukele operates: target, silence, intimidate.

Truth.

"The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know.” ~ James Baldwin