The Nick Tosches Reader

By: Nick Tosches

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Paperback | 30 September 2005 | Edition Number 1

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A Da Capo Original: Thirty years of writings by a unique voice in American literature.. Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison through all the little Sunday-school ideas you've held dear." And Rolling Stone has said that "Tosches can write like a wild rockabilly raveup. He can be elegant as a slow blues." The Nick Tosches Reader is the author's own selection of his best work over the past thirty years, including fiction, poetry, interviews, rock writing, investigative journalism, and criticism. First published in major magazines, obscure underground periodicals, and his own best-selling books, many of these selections deal with rock 'n' roll and cultural iconsbut there are also pieces on everything from William Faulkner to organized crime to heavyweight boxing, including the Vanity Fair feature that gave rise to Tosches's major new book on Sonny Liston, published by Little, Brown. Here is "a unique and darkly impressionistic cultural history" of the last three decades as only Nick Tosches could write it.

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New York Times Book Review, 7/15/10 "If you want to learn about the power and dangers of rock 'n' roll, check out Mary Gaitskill's incomparable novel Veronica or Marianne Faithfull's cackling memoir or The Nick Tosches Reader."

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Introduction
Still/Life
Review of Paranoid
Review of Good Taste Is Timeless
Review of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Absolutely Dead!
Leuk
The Heartbeats Never Did Benefits
God-Crazed Hippies Reap Boffo B.O.
Be Bop A Lula
The Box
The 24-Hr Sound of Country Gospel and the Dark
Beyond Euclid: Pool!
The Real Avant-Garde
Review of Gately's Cafe
Muddy Waters Rarely Eats Fish
Eye: Disease
Review of The Mollusks of Tartura
Sex and Booze
Valerie
Screamin' Jay Hawkins and the Monster
Patti Smith
Country
Excerpt from Country
When Literary Lights Turn on the TV
Letter
Patti Smith: Straight, No Chaser
God Created Dean Martin in His Own Image, Then Stood Back
Jim Morrison: The Late Late Show
Blondie Plucks Her Legs
Review of Always Know
The Gospel According to Jerry Lee
Journal Entry
A Christmas Carol
The Sea's Endless, Awful Rhythm and Me Without Even a Dirty Picture
The Sweet Thighs of Mother Mary
Pizza Man
Lust Among the Adverbs
Letter
Purity
Pizza Man
The Butt and I
Pleasant Brits and 180-Degree Spins
Excerpt from Hellfire
Felicity Opens Wide
Journal Entries
Good Book Made Better
Lust in the Balcony
Review of A Child's Adventure
Review of The Maximus Poems
Elvis in Death
Maybe It Was My Big Mouth - Carly Simon: Free, White, and Pushing Forty
Review of A Choice of Enemies
Review of The Garden of Priapus
Review of A House in the Country
Review of Renaissance and Reform
Excerpt from Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll
God Is My Cosponsor
Frankie: Part 1
Hillary Brooke's Legs
Elmer Batters
Review of Canned Meat
How to Pick Up Girls in Albania
Excerpt from Power on Earth
Excerpt from Frankie: Part 2
Pentecostals in Heat
The Short-Shorts of Satan
Excerpt from Cut Numbers
Exile on Twenty-first Street
Review of Killer: The Mercury Years
Miles Davis: The Hat Makes the Man
James Douglas Morrison, 1943-1971
The Singer Madonna Arraigned by the Ghost of Pope Alexander VI
Lester
Excerpt from Dino
Oedipus Tex
J. Edgar Hoover: The Burroughsian Nightmare
Memories of Joe
My Kind of Loving
George Jones: The Grand Tour
My Overcoat, My Brains, and Me
Notebook entry
Nightmare Alley
Excerpt from Trinities
Letter
The Holy City
Ophis Ovum Opium Ole
There's a Woman Here, Baby
Who Holds in Her Belly the Power of Life
A Slab of Grease, a Bottle of Carbona, and Thou
Excerpt from "Entering the Barrens"
Requiescat Dino
De Niro
The Unfuckable
The Coin
Why I Am Great
Sea of Love
Faraglione 9/16/96
If I Were Robert Stack
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Spud Crazy
The Things I Got
Ash Wednesday
The Devil and Sidney Korshak
Excerpt from Where Dead Voices Gather
Night Train
Dear Privileged Intimate
Hymn for Charlie
E-mail
Please Be quiet - Please
From Chaldea
Excerpt from Scratch
Excerpt from In the Hand of Dante
Bibliographical Appendix
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The Nick Tosches Reader

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