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PublisherAkashic Books
ISBN-101636140254
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Book TitleNein, Nein, Nein! : One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHolocaust, Personal Memoirs, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Road Travel
Publication Year2022
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJerry Stahl
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight12.4 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-945693
Dewey Edition23/eng/20230227
ReviewsAdditional praise for Nein, Nein, Nein! One of Kirkus Reviews 20 Best Book to Read in July 2022 "While Nein, Nein, Nein! is darkly confessional, it is also an exploration of how we remember the Holocaust and whether it is even possible to properly mourn and honor the victims of unspeakable tragedy . . . The result is a sort of gonzo travel book about the ways the Holocaust is memorialized, commercialized and trivialized in the countries where it took place. -- Jewish Telegraphic Agency "Crackling . . . Bizarre, distressing, hilarious and hopeful. Read it immediately." -- CultureWag "Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane, and weirdly life-affirming. The destinations he describes are real, but who else would dare to take us there? Stahl is fearless, gripping, and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes." --Eric Bogosian, actor/playwright "There's dark humor, and then there is Nein, Nein, Nein! Jerry Stahl manages a balancing act here that would put all the trapeze artists of the world to shame." --Lucy Sante, author of Low Life "A disturbing, funny, dark travelogue." --Marc Maron "Few have such an eye for life's perverse absurdity as Jerry Stahl, and his disturbing, hilarious, self- deprecating, and honest voice jumps off the page in Nein, Nein, Nein! There is nobody I'd rather take this gnarly journey with than Stahl, whose gonzo literary madness belies a steady, tender core." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Jerry Stahl, whose manic self-annihilating riffs dance on the volcano-lip of the abyss, is a writer I've been quoting compulsively for twenty-five years. His voice is a hell-broth of fascinating contradictions: the king of mordant cool who writhes with anxious terrors, the professed nihilist with a scalding moral vision, the gifted ironist who really bleeds." --Christopher Goffard, writer/host of the podcasts Dirty John and Detective Trapp "Darkly hilarious . . . a tour bus through literal hell. Nein, Nein, Nein! is the manic chronicle of a Jew confronting personal and historical demons at sites of past devastation and modern-day tourist kitsch. The result is a surreal carnival of cringe amid bursts of profound historical clarity and often unsettling emotional resonance." --Eli Valley, cartoonist, creator of Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel "Stahl explores the dark side of the dark side." --Larry Charles Praise for previous works by Jerry Stahl: "A better-than-Burroughs virtuoso." --New Yorker, on Permanent Midnight, Additional praise for Nein, Nein, Nein! "Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane, and weirdly life-affirming. The destinations he describes are real, but who else would dare to take us there? Stahl is fearless, gripping, and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes." --Eric Bogosian, actor/playwright "There's dark humor, and then there is Nein, Nein, Nein! Jerry Stahl manages a balancing act here that would put all the trapeze artists of the world to shame." --Lucy Sante, author of Low Life "A disturbing, funny, dark travelogue." --Marc Maron "Few have such an eye for life's perverse absurdity as Jerry Stahl, and his disturbing, hilarious, self- deprecating, and honest voice jumps off the page in Nein, Nein, Nein! There is nobody I'd rather take this gnarly journey with than Stahl, whose gonzo literary madness belies a steady, tender core." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Jerry Stahl, whose manic self-annihilating riffs dance on the volcano-lip of the abyss, is a writer I've been quoting compulsively for twenty-five years. His voice is a hell-broth of fascinating contradictions: the king of mordant cool who writhes with anxious terrors, the professed nihilist with a scalding moral vision, the gifted ironist who really bleeds." --Christopher Goffard, writer/host of the podcasts Dirty John and Detective Trapp "Darkly hilarious . . . a tour bus through literal hell. Nein, Nein, Nein! is the manic chronicle of a Jew confronting personal and historical demons at sites of past devastation and modern-day tourist kitsch. The result is a surreal carnival of cringe amid bursts of profound historical clarity and often unsettling emotional resonance." --Eli Valley, cartoonist, creator of Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel "Stahl explores the dark side of the dark side." --Larry Charles Praise for previous works by Jerry Stahl: "A better-than-Burroughs virtuoso." --New Yorker, on Permanent Midnight, Mordantly funny . . . Fusing provocative insights with razor-edged wit, this offers a captivating take on a haunting chapter of history., The hallucinatory self-depreciation of Jerry Stahl's memoir allows for a nuanced look at the audacity of the ugly American . . . Stahl is celebrated for his masochistic honesty that is never less than brutal and almost always on the other side of hope, but in Nein, Nein, Nein!, we get something dangerously close to an Anne Frank-level of optimism., Additional praise for Nein, Nein, Nein! One of Kirkus Reviews 20 Best Book to Read in July 2022 "Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent--and brilliant--tour of Holocaust tourism . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review "Mordantly funny . . . Fusing provocative insights with razor-edged wit, this offers a captivating take on a haunting chapter of history." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED Review "There aren't many authors today who are willing to revisit the Holocaust and write about it. But then again, most authors aren't Jerry Stahl, who has the chutzpah to pull it off masterfully . . . The author's witty prose is appreciated because without levity a trip around the concentration camp horn would make any man or woman beg for mercy. His ability to provide his readers with a seat on the bus to experience the tour is exceptional. There was only one man for this job, and that man is Jerry Stahl." -- Vol. 1 Brooklyn "While Nein, Nein, Nein! is darkly confessional, it is also an exploration of how we remember the Holocaust and whether it is even possible to properly mourn and honor the victims of unspeakable tragedy . . . The result is a sort of gonzo travel book about the ways the Holocaust is memorialized, commercialized and trivialized in the countries where it took place. -- Jewish Telegraphic Agency "Crackling . . . Bizarre, distressing, hilarious and hopeful. Read it immediately." -- CultureWag "Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane, and weirdly life-affirming. The destinations he describes are real, but who else would dare to take us there? Stahl is fearless, gripping, and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes." --Eric Bogosian, actor/playwright "There's dark humor, and then there is Nein, Nein, Nein! Jerry Stahl manages a balancing act here that would put all the trapeze artists of the world to shame." --Lucy Sante, author of Low Life "A disturbing, funny, dark travelogue." --Marc Maron "Few have such an eye for life's perverse absurdity as Jerry Stahl, and his disturbing, hilarious, self- deprecating, and honest voice jumps off the page in Nein, Nein, Nein! There is nobody I'd rather take this gnarly journey with than Stahl, whose gonzo literary madness belies a steady, tender core." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Jerry Stahl, whose manic self-annihilating riffs dance on the volcano-lip of the abyss, is a writer I've been quoting compulsively for twenty-five years. His voice is a hell-broth of fascinating contradictions: the king of mordant cool who writhes with anxious terrors, the professed nihilist with a scalding moral vision, the gifted ironist who really bleeds." --Christopher Goffard, writer/host of the podcasts Dirty John and Detective Trapp "Darkly hilarious . . . a tour bus through literal hell. Nein, Nein, Nein! is the manic chronicle of a Jew confronting personal and historical demons at sites of past devastation and modern-day tourist kitsch. The result is a surreal carnival of cringe amid bursts of profound historical clarity and often unsettling emotional resonance." --Eli Valley, cartoonist, creator of Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel "Stahl explores the dark side of the dark side." --Larry Charles Praise for previous works by Jerry Stahl: "A better-than-Burroughs virtuoso." --New Yorker, on Permanent Midnight, Additional praise for Nein, Nein, Nein! One of Kirkus Reviews 20 Best Book to Read in July 2022 "Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent--and brilliant--tour of Holocaust tourism . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review "Mordantly funny . . . Fusing provocative insights with razor-edged wit, this offers a captivating take on a haunting chapter of history." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED Review "There aren''t many authors today who are willing to revisit the Holocaust and write about it. But then again, most authors aren''t Jerry Stahl, who has the chutzpah to pull it off masterfully . . . The author''s witty prose is appreciated because without levity a trip around the concentration camp horn would make any man or woman beg for mercy. His ability to provide his readers with a seat on the bus to experience the tour is exceptional. There was only one man for this job, and that man is Jerry Stahl." -- Vol. 1 Brooklyn "While Nein, Nein, Nein! is darkly confessional, it is also an exploration of how we remember the Holocaust and whether it is even possible to properly mourn and honor the victims of unspeakable tragedy . . . The result is a sort of gonzo travel book about the ways the Holocaust is memorialized, commercialized and trivialized in the countries where it took place. -- Jewish Telegraphic Agency "Crackling . . . Bizarre, distressing, hilarious and hopeful. Read it immediately." -- CultureWag "Stahl''s talent, one that''s central to a rich Jewish legacy, is turning the tragic and cruel, the unjust and infuriating into something funny. With nimble pacing, he wryly reveals humanity''s baser instincts--the hypocrisy, the often commercialized, performative morality--exposing what lies (in all senses of the word) beneath." -- Coachella Review "Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane, and weirdly life-affirming. The destinations he describes are real, but who else would dare to take us there? Stahl is fearless, gripping, and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes." --Eric Bogosian, actor/playwright "There''s dark humor, and then there is Nein, Nein, Nein! Jerry Stahl manages a balancing act here that would put all the trapeze artists of the world to shame." --Lucy Sante, author of Low Life "A disturbing, funny, dark travelogue." --Marc Maron "Few have such an eye for life''s perverse absurdity as Jerry Stahl, and his disturbing, hilarious, self- deprecating, and honest voice jumps off the page in Nein, Nein, Nein! There is nobody I''d rather take this gnarly journey with than Stahl, whose gonzo literary madness belies a steady, tender core." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Jerry Stahl, whose manic self-annihilating riffs dance on the volcano-lip of the abyss, is a writer I''ve been quoting compulsively for twenty-five years. His voice is a hell-broth of fascinating contradictions: the king of mordant cool who writhes with anxious terrors, the professed nihilist with a scalding moral vision, the gifted ironist who really bleeds." --Christopher Goffard, writer/host of the podcasts Dirty John and Detective Trapp "Darkly hilarious . . . a tour bus through literal hell. Nein, Nein, Nein! is the manic chronicle of a Jew confronting personal and historical demons at sites of past devastation and modern-day tourist kitsch. The result is a surreal carnival of cringe amid bursts of profound historical clarity and often unsettling emotional resonance." --Eli Valley, cartoonist, creator of Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel "Stahl explores the dark side of the dark side." --Larry Charles, "A better-than-Burroughs virtuoso." --New Yorker, on Permanent Midnight "An extraordinary accomplishment . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated, and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives." --Hubert Selby Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, on Permanent Midnight "Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own, and a ghastly, riotous humor." --Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life, on Permanent Midnight "Vivid, agonizing . . . Should be required reading." --Playboy, on Permanent Midnight "[T]hese tales of chasing the dragon, with corollaries often violent and savage, will satisfy devotees of noir fiction and outsider art alike." --Publishers Weekly, starred review, on The Heroin Chronicles (edited by Stahl) "[T]hough Stahl is secretive about how many of his contributors are clean, still using, or in recovery, each narrative demonstrates a remarkable self-awareness, a revealing tone that allows readers to relate to addiction, even if they have never picked up a needle themselves." --Interview, on The Heroin Chronicles "Nothing short of pure genius. Hysterical, disturbing, insanely funny, Perv blows the rest of American fiction out of the water." --Mark Mothersbaugh, composer and founder of Devo "A biting and hilarious exposé which reveals the American Family for what it really is, a horrifying monstrosity whose poisoned tentacles attempt to snuff the life out of you . . . I laughed so hard I wet the bed." --Lydia Lunch, author of Will Work for Drugs, on Perv "Dig it: Perv--A Love Story is a beautifully wrought and twisted ode to freaks, beatniks, hopheads, and the wild-assed and strange everywhere. Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard." --James Ellroy "Imagine Holden Caulfield on bad acid . . . Perv is the definitive young outsider story, told only as Stahl can tell it. It'll make you laugh at everything your parents told you not to laugh at." --Ben Stiller "Stahl is the new king of black humor . . . Plainclothes Naked is a hallucinogenic potboiler." --New York Post "Plainclothes Naked is vile, scurrilous, depraved . . . and hilariously funny . . . clearly a menace to society and a traitor to everything you thought you believed about America." --Anthony Bourdain "Absurdist postmodern pulp fiction . . . It will unplug your mind." --Elle, on Plainclothes Naked "Finally, the true skinny on Fatty . . . Jerry Stahl brilliantly gives life, voice, truth, and respect to Roscoe Arbuckle . . . I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!" --Johnny Depp, on I, Fatty "Jerry Stahl has woven a morality tale from which there is no escape." --Nick Tosches, on I, Fatty "From the opening gut punch this book had me laughing and turning pages. Jerry Stahl is Thomas Berger's wicked stepson and his new novel is a tour de force." --Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, on Pain Killers "Stahl claws beneath the lacquered surfaces of society to fix his gaze on all things dark and grotesque." --San Francisco Chronicle, on Pain Killers, There's a laugh on almost every page of Nein, Nein, Nein, but for all his wit and somewhat skewed perspective, Stahl never loses sight of the gravity of the places he visits . . . Stahl's book shows the thought processes of a man feeling at his lowest soothing his 'shpilkes' by experiencing one of the most sobering, draining tours one can possibly imagine. For him, it's cathartic, and readers might find it to be the same for them.
Dewey Decimal940.53/18
Table Of ContentINTRODUCTION: Bus Plunge CHAPTER 1: The Kramah! The Kramah! CHAPTER 2: Roadkill CHAPTER 3: Stalin's Syringe, Lucky Jews, and a Warsaw Cowboy CHAPTER 4: Google "Polish Bus Rash" CHAPTER 5: Empathy Party CHAPTER 6: Revenge of the Kraków Soup-Cougher CHAPTER 7: Get Carter CHAPTER 8: A Brief Digression ( "Meet the Jewgina!" ) CHAPTER 9: Comfortable Shoes CHAPTER 10: The Maw of the Oven CHAPTER 11: Unworthy CHAPTER 12: Trauma Nosh CHAPTER 13: An Annoying and Self-Righteous Ogre CHAPTER 14: Restaurant Hangman CHAPTER 15: Munich CHAPTER 16: Bear Pit CHAPTER 17: Jedem das Seine CHAPTER 18: How Can the Dead Respect the Living? CHAPTER 19: Walking into Glass CHAPTER 20: In Nazi Times CHAPTER 21: Judgmental at Nuremberg CHAPTER 22: Dachau Blues CHAPTER 23: With Apologies to Ms. Thorne CHAPTER 24: Stanley Manly CHAPTER 25: Stepping on the Faces of the Dead CHAPTER 26: The Mortal Agony CHAPTER 27: Compassion Portal Acknowledgments
SynopsisA guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor "Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent--and brilliant--tour of Holocaust tourism . . . Stahl knows his Holocaust history . . . but he was also prepared to be surprised . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide." -- Kirkus Reviews, a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 "Stahl embarks on Holocaust tourism in this meditative yet humorous account, weaving personal narrative with reflections on current and past global events." -- New York Times Book Review "[Stahl's] razor-sharp gallows humor will have you howling one moment, breathless the next in the presence of wrenching generational pain, of humanity at its very worst, and goodness at its camouflaged best." -- Brooklyn Rail "An audacious, emotional journey." -- The Village Voice In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling--out-of- control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States--would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus., "Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent--and brilliant--tour of Holocaust tourism . . . Stahl knows his Holocaust history . . . but he was also prepared to be surprised . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide." --Kirkus Reviews, a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 "Stahl embarks on Holocaust tourism in this meditative yet humorous account, weaving personal narrative with reflections on current and past global events." --New York Times Book Review In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling--out-of- control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States--would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus., A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor., "Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent-and brilliant-tour of Holocaust tourism . . . Stahl knows his Holocaust history . . . but he was also prepared to be surprised . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide." -Kirkus Reviews, a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 "Stahl embarks on Holocaust tourism in this meditative yet humorous account, weaving personal narrative with reflections on current and past global events." -New York Times Book Review In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling-out-of- control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States-would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.
LC Classification NumberDD43
