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Jerry Stahl is perhaps best known for his 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight, later adapted into a feature film, which chronicles his heroine abuse and includes the infamous story of him shooting up just moments before he held his newborn baby in the delivery room. A few years ago Stahl had a new child and returned to the subject of babies in the novel Happy Mutant Baby Pills, and now he's published the memoir OG Dad: Weird Shit Happens When You Don't Die Young. In this special father's day interview, LARB contributor Paul Cullum talks to Stahl about being an older father, about being an ex-junkie, and how Stahl's new book fits into the parenting genre.
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Paul Cullum is a writer and journalist living in Los Angeles.
LARB Contributor
Paul Cullum is a writer and journalist living in Los Angeles. He has written extensively for the L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Film Threat, Arthur, Black Clock, and hundreds of other marginally subversive magazines.
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