Tonight at 8 PM on Bibliocracy:
JERRY STAHL. His many fans enjoy
the challenge of describing the perverse pleasure of reading and envying the
work of my guest tonight --- if not his life! --- fiction writer, screenwriter
and memoirist Jerry Stahl. Lydia Lunch
calls his work “literary burlesque.”
It’s fun to try to characterize his singularly, manically engaged work:
social commentary, drug culture confidential, adolescent coming-of-age, Hollywood inside scooper. He’s a stand-up William Burroughs, a noir Don
Dellilo, a Pynchonian fabulist whose sharp eye and dark wit convince and engage
immediately. See, it’s easy? And fun.
I, by the way, like Nathaneal West meets Terry Southern, but then you
don’t need to appreciate other iconic writers to appreciate this iconic writer. Start anywhere and be introduced to the voice
and composition and timing and humor which create and then repurpose satire for
sincere autobiography, survival and, with the new novel, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, political critique and something perhaps
even like hope. JERRY STAHL has written
widely, for television and for film, but you can read his fiction and
nonfiction in the memoir Permanent
Midnight, in the novels Perv and I, Fatty and in a short story
collection, Love Without. And it turns out he’s also KPFK
listener-supporter, and has even gleefully sent up the station in the new book. Don’t miss my half hour with one of my
favorite writers. Thanks for
listening. No Bibliocracy for the rest
of December. Instead, Fund Drive and a
couple of holidays. Back in
January. Listen live on the radio or
online, and as a free download from the station’s audio archives, free for 90
days from broadcast. Thanks to engineer Stan Misraje. Friend me and KPFK 90.7 FM on Facebook.
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