Nein, Nein, Nein!, Jerry Stahl
Nein, Nein, Nein!, Jerry Stahl
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Nein, Nein, Nein!
One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust

Author: Jerry Stahl

Narrator: Jerry Stahl

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2022

Synopsis

A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both despair and humor.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 our entire country—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.

About Jerry Stahl

Jerry Stahl is the author of ten books, including the bestsellers Permanent Midnight, a memoir, and the novel I, Fatty. His journalism has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, Vice, the Believer, and a variety of other publications. He has written extensively for film and television, including Hemingway & Gellhorn, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo Berry on October 17, 2022

3.5 stars, rounding up. This book could have been more than it was. It’s all too brief and unfocused. The writing is chaotic, with many stops, starts and tangents, which made it hard to follow. The author begins the book by telling us (in a rather disjointed fashion) about his issues with mental heal......more

Goodreads review by Joe on August 13, 2022

Only Jerry could pull off such a devastatingly humorous self-reflective commentary on the 20th century (mankind's) greatest atrocity with such ... humanity. I've long looked up to Jerry Stahl as a writer I aspire to be like. His latest might be his best since Permanent Midnight. Which is saying a lo......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on May 07, 2024

Jerry Stahl is a writer most well known for his memoir Permanent Midnight which was adapted to film with Ben Stiller playing the lead role. Stahl was a drug addict as well as screenwriter, which made for interesting stories and seems pretty mild today with all the Harvey Weinstein and P. Diddy scand......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on August 24, 2022

Always a pleasure to read new Jerry Stahl. Listening to the audiobook, it was especially cool to hear the book read by the author himself.......more

Goodreads review by Cool_guy on November 15, 2024

Jerry Stahl tries to put the pain of his divorce and separation from his children in perspective with a guided bus tour of the big concentration camps. It's a funny premise. Unfortunately Stahl, like so many liberals of his generation, has fallen victim to Trump. What should be a classic tale of neu......more

Quotes

“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, stand-up comic

“Stahl explores the dark side of the dark side.” Larry Charles, screenwriter of Seinfeld

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