Tosh Berman's Blog, page 145

Tosh Berman with Gillian McCain discussing "TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" at McNally Jackson (Brooklyn)

Tosh Berman discusses "TOSH" with Gillian McCain at McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn. Event date:
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
76 N. 4th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249

Tosh Berman and Kevin Sampsell at Powell's Books in Portland

Some photos from Tosh Berman's reading/signing/discussion with author Kevin Sampsell at Powell's in Portland last Monday. A great event in a fab town and an awesome book store! - Kimley Maretzo

Tosh Berman, in Conversation with Lisa See, discusses and signs "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" at Book Soup

Event date: Book Soup, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 7:00pm Event address: 8818 Sunset BlvdWest Hollywood, CA 90069

TOSH  is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture, Tosh Berman's father, Wallace Berman, was known as the "father of assemblage art," and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife, famed beauty and artist's muse Shirley Berman, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art, music, and literature, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through.  Tosh's unconventional childhood and peculiar journey to adulthood feature an array of famous characters, from George Herms and Marcel Duchamp to Michael McClure and William S. Burroughs, to Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell, to the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and Toni Basil.   TOSH  takes an unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of his unusual upbringing by an artistic genius with all-too-human frailties, against a backdrop that includes The T.A.M.I. Show, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Easy Rider, and more. With a preface by actress/writer Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Wallace's friend, actor Russ Tamblyn),  TOSH  is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. The index of names included represents a who's who of mid-century American--and international--culture. (City Lights Books)Event date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 7:00pmEvent address: 8818 Sunset BlvdWest Hollywood, CA 90069 Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World (Paperback)By Tosh Berman, Amber Tamblyn (Preface by) $17.95 ISBN: 9780872867604 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: City Lights Books - January 15th, 2019

Tosh Berman on BOOKWORM

Photo by Christopher Ho

"A book that takes place at the meeting point of the art, film, music, and literary world of a certain Los Angeles, during the transition between beat culture and 60s counterculture, written from the perspective of Tosh Berman as a teenager. Learn about the artistic morality of Tosh’s father, Wallace, an assemblage artist with great originality and notable admirers. Tosh’s mother Shirley acts as a bridge between popular culture and the avant-garde.

Living in Topanga, Tosh discovers rock music, science fiction, even magick (yes, with a ‘k’). Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world and remade to fit the special conditions and requirements of Los Angeles."  Bookworm, KCRW
Tosh Berman interviewed by Michael Silverblatt

Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World: An Interview with Tosh Berman/ Dangerous Minds

Photo by Wallace Berman of Tosh Berman, San Francisco 1959 Copyright of the Wallace Berman Estate
Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World: An Interview with Tosh Berman/ Dangerous Minds by Matthew O'Shannessy
Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World: An Interview with Tosh Berman

Citizens of the World can Special Order "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

Dear Future Readers, I just want to let you know that you can now special order my book "Tosh" Growing up in Wallace Berman's World" at your local bookstore. What you do is call or go into your local store, give them the title above, and then if you need to, give them the ISBN number which is 9780872867604. And I believe a foreign bookstore can order the book for you as well. Ingram is a wholesaler that sells books to bookstores, and they now have my book in their warehouse. So order away, and enjoy reading my book - Tosh Berman. Photo by Lacy Soto at the Artbook location in Los Angeles.

Book Review of TOSH by Donald Brackett (Critics at Large)

Photo by Wallace BermanA very thoughtful review of my book "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" by Donald Brackett. I'm (and City Lights) lucky to have such a wonderful reader. - Tosh Berman
Critic at Large: It's Been a Hard Day's Life: Growing Up Berman

Tosh Berman on Bookworm Radio Show

Photo by Lun*na Menoh

Tosh Berman on Michael Silverblatt's "Bookworm" radio show. What more can I possibly want in my life? - Tosh Berman

Tosh Berman at City Lights Books

My book "TOSH" at City Lights Books
Photo by Kathy Stevens
Photo by Kathy Stevens

Review from Sensitive Skin Magazine on "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

Wow! A great review from Marc Olmsted. For Sensitive Skin Magazine. Read it here:


https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-review-marc-olmsted/