{"product_id":"the-nick-tosches-reader-9780306809699","title":"The Nick Tosches Reader","description":"\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e has said that Nick Tosches \"casts brilliant black light.\" The \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e has said that \"Tosches can write like a wild rockabilly raveup. He can be elegant as a slow blues.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Nick Tosches Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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 icons--but there are also pieces on everything from William Faulkner to organized crime to heavyweight boxing, including the \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Tosches\u003c\/b\u003e is from Newark, New Jersey. He is the author of four previous novels, \u003ci\u003eMe and the Devil, In the Hands of Dante, Cut Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTrinities\u003c\/i\u003e. His nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003eWhere Dead Voices Gather, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Dino, Power on Earth, Hellfire, Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUnsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318991261970,"sku":"9780306809699","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c7b7e84-5099-476e-bfb4-e68affba5e43.jpg?v=1727563345","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-nick-tosches-reader-9780306809699","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}