Writer JERRY STAHL. His new memoir is Permanent Midnight (Warner Bros). STAHL was a successful journalist, a scriptwriter for cult film classics like "Cafe Flesh," and "Dr. Caligari," who went on to write for the hit TV shows "Moonlighting," "ALF" and "thirtysomething." STAHL was also a junkie. His new memoir he writes, "You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success." Tobias Wolff says of STAHL's book, "An original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time."
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