New Substack, A CHRISTMAS STORY open.substack.com/pub/jerrysta...

POPCORN DISABILITIES drops on the 27th but you can get copies early if you come to my screening of FREAKS at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social on the 16th!! Buy tickets now! www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

SATAN’S NOT A BAD GUY WHEN YOU GET TO KNOW HIM: Shopping with the Antichrist- new Substack post on jerrystahl.substack.com

L.A. Details. This image includes: a 5th Street “shotgun sign” and a Leonide Hotel “blade sign.”

Dunno whether to credit Martin Lawrence, Ron Shelton or Jerry Stahl but every time I watch BAD BOYS II I have to post this shot... it cracks me up

I’ll be talking to Tom Lutz, founder of Los Angeles Review of Books, at Diesel Books in Santa Monica, about his new work.

Wear out your library card. Your heart should palpitate when you step into a library and smell all the books. Oh my. Such a rush to know there are always books you haven't read yet. True luxury of the mind. Growth and feeding of the spirit, decadence... #writingcommunity #booksky #readingcompsday

Reading this while thinking about @elivalley.bsky.social's observation that a signed photo of Theodor Herzl, the founder of 20th century Jewish ethno-nationalism, hangs in a @nytimes.com board room. Looming over their every word. Timestamp: 00:04:57

I'd like to know which historians did not express concern at the inevitable "Slavery Was A Choice" exhibition. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

Museum of Degenerates reviewed in The Progressive: progressive.org/latest/eli-v...

After Columbia buckled to antisemitic, thought-control fascists in the U.S. government, genocide scholars are now forced to leave their jobs: apnews.com/article/colu...

Very sorry to learn that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the incomparable Arkady Renko series, has died. My deepest condolences to his family, including @luisacruz.bsky.social. His final book, HOTEL UKRAINE, was published earlier this month and was a fitting send-off to the series.

My agency shared some stuff on IG today to celebrate the reissue of Zero Saints. They included this blurb by the fucking legend @somejerrystahl.bsky.social. Ten years later and it’s still one of my favorites. Go read Jerry’s books!

Ruth López is a fearless defender of human rights & has been, for me & many others, a source of insight & moral clarity on the long list of abuses perpetrated by the Salvadoran govt. Her arrest (on highly dubious charges) is a patent demonstration of how Bukele operates: target, silence, intimidate.

Truth.

"The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know.” ~ James Baldwin

At Stories Bookstore & Cafe 1716 Sunset Nlvd Echo Park LA Sunday tonight 7 pm sharp!

film still #60 My friend Jerry Stahl in character. #severance

Thrilled to publish this on @animusmagazine.bsky.social ahead of the UK premiere at the ICA of the new 4K restoration of Stephen Sayadian's CAFÉ FLESH—a fantastic guide by Daniel Bird to the beautifully mad dialogue crafted by Sayadian and writer Jerry Stahl: animus-magazine.ghost.io/cafe-flesh-g...

I do this every morning every morning anyway

Makes sense. Mind blown.

LOS ANGELES! I’ll be at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social Los Feliz 3 Sat. 4/19 for a GANDOLFINI DOUBLE FEATURE! 7pm: KILLING THEM SOFTLY (www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...)
 10pm: THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...)
 Book signings before/after/between!

Another in the continuing series, “LA’s Black Billboards"

Hey, so I’ll be in New York on May 2 hanging out and chatting with Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones at the PEN America World Voices Festival. Can’t wait to be back in one of my favorite cities with some of my favorite people. worldvoices.pen.org/event/25-art...

I’m so excited to say Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life is now available to pre-order. Part memoir, part guide, it features 50+ of Britain’s best known disabled women, from Jameela Jamil, Ruth Madeley, Katie Piper to Rosie Jones. Order all formats here: linktr.ee/WhoWantsNormal

A stellar panel of Robert Pogue Harrison, Tobias Wolf, Laura Wittman, & Bryan Cheong will discuss Dino Buzzati's The Singularity next Thursday (4/17) at Stanford University (Levinthal Hall) and streaming online.

Interrupting the deliberate crash of the economy to say I'll be in BALTIMORE APRIL 22 presenting Museum of Degenerates at Red Emma's Bookstore! redemmas.org/events/eli-v...

Can we put actual 11 year olds in charge of the government?

GET THIS BOOK. I’ve pre-ordered mine!!!

Don’t miss the LA premiere of “Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt” at the Aero Theater Sat night 3/29! Book signing & a crazy ass panel with Drew plus Leonard Maltin, Dana Gould, Steven Weber, KAZ, Scott Alexander, Kliph Nesteroff & yours truly. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

From 2018, and continuing to steward us into fascism every day since.

Quite the thrill appearing on this week’s Severance. Big thanks to Ben Stiller for the invite. Great doing a scene with the inimitable James LeGros.

please subscribe to my newsletter if you haven't already lots more to come! disruptionist.com

Timezones are so weird. In Iceland it's 10 am. In Mexico it's 3 pm. And in the US it's 1930s Germany.

Orwell understood these dynamics better than almost anyone.

Here, I spoke to undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry, and some orgs who support them, about what everyone is facing right now www.eater.com/24359357/und...

Read the whole history of L. Brent Bozell and his family's decades-long war on television comedy in this sexy looking book.

This being Holocaust Day - Borowski’s masterpiece is the perfect read. Though lately it’s getting hard to tell the past from the future.

My interview with the great Jonathan Ames now up on Substack. We talk fiction, Buddhism, bus station men’s rooms and his spectacular, wild-ass new novel, Karma Doll. Read at jerrystahl.substack.com Thanks.

At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo album

In the midst of the madness we’re all enduring, Karma Doll, Jonathan Ames’ wildly funny, semi- depraved, and beautifully written new Noir, may be the perfect read… For my money, his bent, burned-out Buddhist detective, Happy Doll, is this generation’s Philip Marlowe. I fucking loved this book!

New @elivalley.bsky.social has arrived

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (English language, Italian Subtitles) youtu.be/vXcY5-9qFaI Featuring interviews with: Hubert SelbyJr, Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Darren Aronofsky, Uli Edel, Alexis Arquette, Desmond Nakano, Jerry Stahl, Richard Price, Amiri Baraka, Nick Tosches...

New Substack, “Disease of the Week” - On MAGA Coke Monsters, Late-to-the-Party Covid, Heroin as GPA Booster, Vaccine Fun Drugs, The Dark Rumor of a Missing Penis in the White House - and a grooming tip from William S. Burroughs. Jerrystahl.substack.com

Our long national nightmare is over: 💥 8 Years of comics 🎨 Color comics in full color 📚 Extensive histories, notes and backstories 🤯 Massive introduction 🔖 >250 pages 🔥 MUSEUM OF DEGENERATES: PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN GROTESQUE is now up for pre-order! orbooks.com/catalog/muse...

Matt can't stop talking about Dr. Caligari, and neither can you! In episode 3 (Nothing Hides Evidence Like a Stew: Dr. Caligari) the Fagan brothers will try to unpack this marvelous conundrum from 1989. The incredible film is directed by Stephen Sayadian, & written by Stephen Sayadian & Jerry Stahl.