Nick Tosches featured on the popular Travel Channel show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in the episode “Disappearing Manhattan”
He and Bourdain shared a drink at Sophie’s bar.
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Biographer, Essayist, Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Tony and Nick discuss Southeast Asia and "The Last Opium Den."
Life
After different odd-jobs, Tosches started writing for poetry and rock-‘n’-roll magazines, including Creem, Fusion, and Rolling Stone.
Tosches’ second book, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire (1982).
Subsequent biographies have examined Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, Emmett Miller, and Arnold Rothstein.
He has been published in Vanity Fair, Esquire and Open City.
The Nick Tosches Reader collects writings over his career.
* Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film, 2006
* Mobsters, in the episode Tommy Lucchese, 2008
* Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in the episode “Disappearing Manhattan”, 2009
* Johnny Depp has purchased the film rights to Tosches’ novel In The Hand Of Dante.
Depp will play Tosches in the film.
“Tosches’ novel takes the form of a translation of an eyewitness account of Jesus’ ministry, a brilliant, dark journey that takes almost every piece of the well-worn gospel stories and turns them on their heads…not since The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) has there been a book with so much potential for offending believers.
But there’s far more to it than shock value. This is also a meditation on the extraordinary strength of both lies and belief, and it shows how truth can sometimes grow in the shadows between them. Disturbing, audacious, and powerful.”
—Booklist, starred review
“An Olympian mastery of language.”
— Library Journal
"Blindingly brilliant.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Unbelievable. I read everything by Nick Tosches... words and wisdom that I shall carry with me into the fucking dirt.”
— Johnny Depp
“There are, in fact, very few writers who have Nick Tosches’ singular gift.”
— David Hare, The Spectator
“Great...a triumph!”
— James Elroy“Tosches works wonders.”
— The Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“Brilliant.”
— The New Statesman
“Extraordinarily compelling.”
— The London Times
“Fascinating.”
— The New York Times Book Review
"Nick Tosches is a beautiful thug [who] has always beaten back a demon while inhabiting the very soul of the beast.”
— Philadelphia City Paper
“Wonderful.”
— Rolling Stone
"Tosches strikes gold.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Terrific...beautiful...one hell of a poet...Nick Tosches is such an extraordinary writer he could write about the Staten Island phone book and make it interesting. It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness...I feel speechless in the face of such perfection. I have never read such a beautifully constructed and written document in my life.”
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
“L’homme-serpent...the revelation of these recent years.”
— Rage
"Masterly.”
— The Chattanooga Times
“An American classic.”
— Greil Marcus
“Terrific.”
— The Washington Post
“Sets a new standard.”
— The Los Angeles Times
“Erudite, visionary [...] Nick Tosches reigns supreme as the King of Hipster Lit. Not to read him, quite simply, is to remain lame.”
— Shout
“Grandmaster of Grit Lit, Nick Tosches writes eloquently about America’s underbelly.”
— The Boston Globe
“[Tosches writes] without illusion and yet with real sympathy, call it a form of love.
That is a real achievement of writing and feeling.”
— David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker
“Compelling.”
— The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Breathtaking writing.”
— Time Out New York
“Audacious.”
— The Dallas Morning News
“Muscular and incendiary.”
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
“As versatile, soulful, tough and funny as any writer at work in America today.”
— The New York Daily News
“A testament to the power of Tosches’ writing.”
— The Arizona Republic
“A feat.”
— Esquire
“Tough, tender, knowing, and tense.”
— The San Francisco Chronicle
“Tosches’s book is a work of art.”
— Esquire
Definitive.”
— Time Magazine
“The story-teller of hell.”
— L’Officiel Homme
“Riveting.”
— New York Newsday
“The ultimate epic bard of Little Italy."
— L’Express
“Wonderful.”
— Loaded
“Nick Tosches stands out as the kind of writer other writers only dream of becoming—amazing at fiction, unparalleled in journalism and biography, and possessed of a stature and genius his lessers can but crouch beneath, gazing up in wonder, awe, and more than a little terror at what this man, in a single, unfinished life, has been able to accomplish on the page.”
— Jerry Stahl
“A new vision.”
— Options
“Plunges to the heart of the forces of evil.”
— Le Monde Livres
“Unforgettable.”
— Booklist
“Darker than the dark.”
— Libération
“Tosches can't write a dull book.”
— Washington Post Book World
“I’m an admirer of anything and everything Nick Tosches writes.”
— Tom Robbins
“Nick Tosches’ extravagant and evocative biography is a superbly told story that makes sense of the wildest, most messed-up survivor in the history of rock ’n’ roll. They don’t make them like that any more. And, perhaps for that very reason, they don’t write them like that anymore. A killer of a book.”
— The Observer, in declaring Hellfire to be the greatest rock-’n’-roll book ever written
“Will burn the skin off your fingers...compelling...you’ll go the distance.”— Maxim
“Tosches can't write a dull book. He sets his foot firmly on your throat from the start; he wont let up, and you won’t want him to.”
— Washington Post Book World
“A writer of rare humanity.”
— GQ
“Rich, fully dimensional, psychologically revealing.”
— Variety
“Approaching genius.”
— The Buffalo News
“Literate, poetic, dark, shocking, wonderful.”
— Tim Robbins
“Nick Tosches doesn’t just report the wised up lingo of low-biz, he uses it, sometimes to almost poetic effect... And he also has a gift for recounting the social history of anti-social people.”— Richard Schickel, The Wall Street Journal
"Inestimable.”— Robert Birnbaum, The Morning News
“Nick Tosches’s pen is a knife that can whittle anything well!”— Alexander Theroux
