Permanent Midnight: A Memoir

Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, *Permanent Midnight* is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s *Last Exit to Brooklyn*. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, *Permanent Midnight* follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and into sobriety. In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film version of *Permanent Midnight* to much acclaim. Nic Sheff, author of *Tweak*, writes the introduction to this edition.