Permanent Midnight

Jerry Stahl''s seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.''s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict''s inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the dregs of addiction and into sobriety.

In 1998, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Maria Bello starred in a film...