At the center of many good hard-boiled novels is an elusive object of pursuit, à la The Maltese Falcon. But in the case of Plainclothes Naked — wherein author Jerry Stahl blends gruesome but slapstick ...

He's written sitcoms, TV dramas and action movies, but he may be best known for his brutally honest memoir "Permanent Midnight." In his latest book, "OG Dad," Jerry Stahl writes about becoming a new ...