Permanent Midnight Author:Jerry Stahl Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of Jerry Stahl, a former television writer. Stahl was an aspiring fiction writer who arrives in L.A. and lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts, and descends into quasi-functional heroin addiction.
Squirmingly honest acoount of the author's downward spiral into drugs and his gradual ascent. Love his writing and his ability to recount horror with self-deprecating humor.