Permanent Midnight
10 best books like Permanent Midnight (Jerry Stahl): Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir, If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir, The Adderall Diaries, Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper, Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction, Lithium for Medea, Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience, The Story of Junk, Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess
Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
| Author | Clint Catalyst |
| ISBN | 1555837530 |
Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person.
In this nice fat collection of original stories, some of the most daring writers on the American literary scene take up that slim little word 'I' and use it to poke around the darkest, funkiest corners of their very own...
| Author | Bill Clegg |
| ISBN | 0316054674 |
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his...
| Author | Jessica Hendry Nelson |
| ISBN | 1619022338 |
If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people:...
| Author | Stephen Elliott |
| ISBN | 1555975380 |
In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina’s former lover, and Hans’s former best friend,...
| Author | Gypsy Rose Lee |
| ISBN | 1883319951 |
Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards,...
| Author | Steven Martin |
| ISBN | 0345517830 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery.
A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic...
| Author | Kate Braverman |
| ISBN | 1583224718 |
Lithium for Medea is a tale of addiction: to drugs, physical love, and dysfunctional family chains. It is also a tale of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Rose grew up with an emotionally crippled, narcissistic mother while her father, a veteran gambler, spent...
| Author | Cynthia Palmer |
| ISBN | 0892817577 |
• An anthology of writings by some of the most influential women in history on the often misunderstood and misrepresented female drug experience.
• With great honesty, bravery, and frankness, women from diverse backgrounds write about their drug experiences.
Women have been...
| Author | Linda Yablonsky |
| ISBN | 0316968080 |
New York City. March 1986. The world is made of junk: junk bonds, junk food, junk powder. At least, that's how it seems to a woman in a downtown walkup, where every day for five years she's been opening her door to people engaged in the culture of the moment. Some of them are getting famous, some are changing...
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess
| Author | Danny Sugerman |
| ISBN | 0316773549 |
I owe this book some fanmail. It is a wonderland of uncut emotion. Did it make me want to take drugs? Maybe. Right up until the point where it didn't. It made me want to stick to my guns. It made me want to live for something bigger than me. There is nothing abstract about this book. There is no compromise. And...
High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings
| Author | Amy Scholder |
| ISBN | 0452265827 |
This provocative collection of short fiction, essays, and poetry freely delves into forbidden zones of sex and transgressive behavior. The writers and artists featured in High Risk share one strong conviction: that art must be bound only by the limits of the imagination. Here is the so called dark...
| Author | Antonia Crane |
| ISBN | 1940207061 |
A small town girl leaves her troubled family and starts stripping — which introduces her to a community that keeps her sober and saves her life — but a roller-coaster lifestyle ensues. She gets drugged, does enema shows, and unionizes the club. When she tries to quit and go to graduate school, her...
| Author | James Brown |
| ISBN | 0060521511 |
A wrenching chronicle of loss and
reaffirmation from novelist James Brown Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries he reveals his...
| Author | Cookie Mueller |
| ISBN | 1852423315 |
Ask Dr. Mueller captures the glamour and grittiness of Cookie Mueller?s life and times. Here are previously unpublished stories - wacky as they are enlightening - along with favorites from Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black and other publications. Also the best of Cookie?s art columns...
Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
| Author | Sebastian Horsley |
| ISBN | 0061461253 |
when i was little i fell in love with john malkovich in dangerous liaisons.
i knew that when i grew up i wanted to be with a man who wore crushed velvet and lace cuffs and fancy shoes and was well-spoken and soulless. and they told me i would never find a straight man who dressed like that....
| Author | William Cope Moyers |
| ISBN | 0670037893 |
From rock bottom to recovery—the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery
William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put together...
| Author | Jim Knipfel |
| ISBN | 0425173305 |
The acclaimed comic memoir by the popular New York Press columnist. ...
"An extraordinary emotional ride. It is maniacally aglow with a born storyteller's gifts of observation and an amiably deranged sense of humor."-- TheThomas Pynchon
"Knipfel may be blind, but his artistic...
| Author | Mary Woronov |
| ISBN | 1852427191 |
Swimming Underground is Mary Woronov's blazing memoir about her near lethal experiences in Andy Warhol's Factory in the late '60s. Woronov takes us on a surreal trip through this infamous circle -- including Ondine, Lou Reed, Gerard Malanga, International Velvet, Rotten Rita, and Billy Name -- shooting...
| Author | Dodie Bellamy |
| ISBN | 0299206742 |
In Dodie Bellamy's imagined "sequel" to Bram Stoker's fin de siècle masterpiece Dracula, Van Helsing's plain Jane secretarial adjunct, Mina Harker, is recast as a sexual, independent woman living in San Francisco in the 1980s. The vampire Mina Harker, who possesses the body of author Dodie...
| Author | Eddie Little |
| ISBN | 0140267727 |
In the tradition of Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries, Eddie Little's debut novel traces the outlaw life of a young Irish American. A teenage speed freak and petty thief, Bobbie and his Puerto Rican girlfriend, Rosie, are taken under the wing of an all-round criminal opportunist named Mel, who is old...
| Author | Tony O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0061582867 |
After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless...
| Author | Heather King |
| ISBN | 0451220064 |
One woman's journey to the bottom of the bottle--and back.
In this tragicomic memoir about alcoholism as spiritual thirst, Heather King--writer, lawyer, and National Public Radio commentator--describes her descent into the depths of addiction. Spanning a decades-long downward spiral,...
The Three of Us: A Family Story
| Author | Julia Blackburn |
| ISBN | 0375424741 |
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister,...
