Nick Tosches





Nick Tosches

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October 01, 1949 in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

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Nick Tosches was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised by wolves from the other side. Through nepotism he became a barroom porter at the age of fourteen. Casting this career to the wind in his quest for creative fulfillment, he became a paste-up artist for the Lovable Underwear Company in New York City. On January 12, 1972, he went to lunch and never came back, drifting south to Florida, where, among other things, he worked as a snake-hunter for the Miami Serpentarium. After being bit on the shin one morning, he decided to forsake all further employment, and thus became a writer of poetry and prose.


Average rating: 3.88 · 2,512 ratings · 315 reviews · 24 distinct works
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In the Hand of Dante
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Dino: Living High in the Di...
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The Devil and Sonny Liston
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Country: The Twisted Roots ...
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The Last Opium Den
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Unsung Heroes Of Rock 'n' R...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions
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The Nick Tosches Reader
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2000
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Where Dead Voices Gather
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King of the Jews
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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“And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs - that song, endlesly reincarnated - born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness.”
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