**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

**Author’s Note: I would like to state upfront that this retrospective of Jerry Stahl’s life and career was done completely without his participation. I’m simply a massive fan of his and since there isn’t another complete chronological examination of his life and work, I figured I’d go ahead and fill that void as best as […]

PART ONE Introduction 1 .Aschenbrand, P. (2016, August 12) The Chosen Ones: An Interview With Jerry Stahl. Tablet Magazine.https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-chosen-ones-an-interview-with-jerry-stahl Growing Up Jerry 1. Campion, C. (2015, June 17) Jerry Stahl: ‘Our family business was shame.’ The Guardian.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/17/jerry-stahl-our-family-business-was-shame 2. Charles, L. (2013, November 3) Jerry Stahl: Government has a “fascist-adjacent” devotion to business. Salon.https://www.salon.com/2013/11/03/jerry_stahl_government_has_a_fascist_adjacent_devotion_to_business/ 3. Gilmartin, […]

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Quentin Tarantino for nearly three decades. I can now admit that I never completely forgave him for becoming, well… Quentin fucking Tarantino. I was there at the beginning when he was an up-and-coming screenwriter who’d made his directorial and writing debut with this amazing indie that everyone was talking […]

In 2014, I decided I’d start writing about other people’s movies. The fully detailed story of how this now-forty-something white man got to such an adolescent wish-fulfillment place would only be interesting to him and take hours and at least two psychiatric specialists to explain properly. The shortened version will have to suffice. Movies have […]