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	Merchandise: CUZ Editions catalog
		Chaldea/I Dig Girls by Nick Tosches is "a purse-book of breath from dead places, of gutters that run through paradise and gods who dwell in madness, of ancient wisdoms and ancient rhythms come back to town in kid-mohair britches.
		Chaldea is the place of all dark magic, deep within the lake of the heart; the place of resurrection, annihilation, and the breezes of all that is forbidden..." It comprises 25 poems and a story.
		Nick Tosches is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction cartographer of underworlds.
	www.richardhell.com /cuzlist.html (1234 words)

	Nick Tosches \| Official Bio
		Nick Tosches was born (1949) in Newark, New Jersey, and raised by wolves from the other side.
		The Nick Tosches Reader, an anthology spanning the first thirty years of his career, was published in April 2000 by Da Capo.
		Tosches lives in New York and is presently at work on what he foresees as his masterpiece, a novel entitled In the Hand of Dante.
	www.exitwounds.com /Tosches.htm (642 words)

	Nick Tosches' not-so-divine comedy Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		Nick Tosches' novel includes a character named Nick Tosches, a writer, who is credited with writing books that have actually been written by Nick Tosches, the author.
		Tosches, for those who have not encountered him before, is a celebrated heavyweight contributor to Vanity Fair and author of the well-received nonfiction books Where Dead Voices Gather, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Dino, Power on Earth, Hellfire, Country, and Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll and the novels Trinities and Cut Numbers.
		Tosches chooses to cover the drama deficit with two ploys, alternately filling sections with his rants (which range over the lousy state of the world, the lousy state of his health, and the general disgruntlements endemic to middle age) and with sections devoted to Dante.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20020915/ai_n12476627 (916 words)

	Salon My Lunch With \| Nick Tosches, the man in the leopard-skin loafers
		Tosches emerged roughly 30 years ago from music magazines like Creem and Fusion where he placed the fringe figures of rock 'n' roll history in proper perspective.
		Tosches methodically alternates between Camels and some filtered brand for the next couple of hours, both packs neatly placed next to each other on the table for quick access.
		Tosches' first book, "Country," is back in print again and is widely recognized as a vital, though resolutely sleazy, cornerstone of country music scholarship.
	www.salon.com /people/lunch/1999/11/12/tosches/print.html (1841 words)

	In the Hand of Dante - Nick Tosches
		Tosches makes himself the protagonist, a writer and sometime gangster hanger-on who is conscripted to retrieve the original manuscript of Dante’s poem.
		Tosches goes out of his way to mingle fiction and reality here, and the way he describes his own actions, there’s no way to check his story.
		Tosches is forever chasing some idealized past, whether it’s the rural south of the 1950s (in his rock ‘n’ roll writing, he seemed to believe the music was already spoiled by the time Elvis walked into Sun Studios) or the medieval Italy of Dante.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/IntheHandofDante.htm (765 words)

	Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches \| PopMatters Book Review
		Tosches makes one feel as if a concerted effort has been made to keep the most volatile and affecting American music hidden away and allow the mediocre and mundane to usurp the rightful position of the hell-bent and heartrending.
		Even though Tosches cynically states, "Meaning is the biggest suckers-racket of all and any regard for it, no matter how fleeting, befits a middle-aged fool like me," he doggedly pursues all the available evidence for the importance of Miller's career with the tenacity of a private eye.
		Tosches seems unwilling to grant that the motive for engaging in the practice was anything more complicated than a desire for money on the part of impoverished performers.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/w/where-dead-voices-gather.shtml (2007 words)

	Nick Tosches - AOL Music
		Nick Tosches : Author of Dino, Hellfire, Trinities, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Cut Numbers, The Last Opium Den, and In The Hand of Dante.
		Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and...
		Nick Tosches: No, in the instance of this particular book [In the Hand of Dante], I realized as I got down to...
	music.aol.com /artist/nick-tosches/286167/main (128 words)

	No Exit Press - In The Hand Of Dante by Nick Tosches 1842430963
		Nick Tosches is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction Where Dead Voices Gather, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Dino, Power on Earth, Hellfire, Country, and Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll; and of the novels Trinities and Cut Numbers.
		'[Tosches] combines the starkness of Jim Thompson and the grittiness of Charles Bukowski with a highly literate sensibility...Mr.
		'Tosches shows off an impressive breadth of knowledge on the life and times of Dante Alighieri, interweaving the story of Tosches' quest with that of the poet himself, alternating a hard-boiled literary voice with one that attempts to evoke the great work itself.
	www.noexit.co.uk /inthehandofdante_pb.htm (705 words)

	"The Last Opium Den" by Nick Tosches - Salon
		Tough-guy writer Nick Tosches elegantly mourns the vanishing of a decadent icon.
		Tosches presents himself as an insider, one privy to all kinds of secret information.
		I know because, like Tosches, I was intoxicated by opium dreams, and I longed to smoke the stuff in a den, with my head on a pillow and an old man tending the pipe.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/03/07/tosches/index.html (731 words)

	Amazon.com: The Nick Tosches Reader: Books: Nick Tosches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tosches, early in his career, paid his bills with small fees garnered as a music critic, and this lively era of no-holds-barred journalism (later to be dubbed "New") is on raunchy display here.
		Tosches' gift is an ability to look in the places where the stupid assumptions that cover things over say don't look, and then to say it sensuously, joyously, marvelously, with accuracies of his own making.
		On the contrary, as a researcher Tosches' tentacles reach from the basements of dusty libraries to the boardrooms of entertainment executives to the social clubs that function as Mafia fronts.
	www.amazon.com /Nick-Tosches-Reader/dp/0306809699 (1768 words)

	Literal Mind. The Devil and Sonny Liston, Nick Tosches
		And between the shrouded bookends of that life, Nick Tosches's biography "The Devil and Sonny Liston" has traced the umbrous march on earth of a man few knew and most dared not to.
		During Liston's steady ascent through the heavyweight ranks, which Tosches ably charts through to his capture of the heavyweight crown and beyond, it was the criminal underworld, which had a lock on all facets of the fight game.
		Tosches succeeds in shedding some light on his brooding and taciturn subject.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=57 (826 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - nick tosches
		Writer Nick Tosches was born in Newark, New Jersey and began his writing career with music magazines like Creem and Fusion after a series of very odd jobs.
		Nick Tosches is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, writes for a variety of publications and lives in New York City.
		Nick Tosches: No, in the instance of this particular book [In the Hand of Dante], I realized as I got down to actually writing it that so many of the feelings the first person character was going to express were my own that it should be in the first person and not the third.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum63.html (3981 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Last Opium Den" by Nick Tosches
		Tosches finds similar places in Cambodia and Indonesia, but the conceit that he's stumbled upon some secret treasure grates.
		Tosches refers to these tours and then dismisses them: "Almost everybody I've met who has visited Northern Thailand has encountered a tribal villager eager to administer a pipe or two of opium for cash.
		The menacing, knowing undercurrents in Tosches' book, coupled with the exaggerations of his claims about opium's disappearance, lead me to suspect that beneath his tumescent posing lurks the flitting heart of a drama queen.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2002/03/07/tosches/index1.html (778 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Hand of Dante: A Novel: Books: Nick Tosches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Deftly blending the sacred and the profane, Tosches boldly casts himself as the protagonist in his latest novel, an outrageously ambitious book in which he procures a purloined version of the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy while tracing Dante's journey as Dante struggled to complete his penultimate work.
		Enter Tosches, a student of Dante's work and a go-between for the mob; his quest to authenticate the book takes a turn that his conspirators can't predict, and he has plans of his own for the tome.
		Tosches grasps at an all encompassing world view that accounts for the interplay of the three great religions from the beginning of time to 9/11 (which actually plays a minor and unnecessary role in the plot) but the accomplishment eludes him.
	www.amazon.com /Hand-Dante-Novel-Nick-Tosches/dp/0316895245 (1888 words)

	Critical Praise: Nick Tosches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"[Tosches] writes a streetwise edition of the high style, the prose noble with classical cadences and silky incantations but also rumbling like a blues groove.
		"[Tosches] combines the starkness of Jim Thompson and the grittiness of Charles Bukowski with a highly literate sensibility.
		"Nick Tosches is one of those rare writers who can inspire, offend, illuminate and repel -- often in the same paragraph...
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/90/1872/critical_praise.html (458 words)

	Nick Tosches
		I'm not sure which is more fascinating, the subject(s) or the author, but I had such a helluva good time reading these two that I bought the whole long list of everything the author has published.
		Tosches is an underground icon if you’ll suffer me the oxymoron with whom we became very belatedly aware in our interview with the high thinking bottom feeder Michael Rhodes.
		Nick Tosches’ newest book is an absolutely brilliant novel called In the Hand of Dante.
	www.puremusic.com /tosches.html (465 words)

	CD Baby: NICK TOSCHES: For the taking
		I never heard Nick Tosches before, but have read a few of his books.
		Nick Tosches not only brings you amazing spoken word but his voice has an amazing tone and timbre.
		Frightening spoken word by world renowned author Nick Tosches (Dino, Country, Hellfire, In the hand of Dante)is paired up with weird and morose electronic music by some guy named Whitehurst.
	cdbaby.com /cd/tosches (669 words)

	The Nick Tosches Reader \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Partly inspired by the radical tenor of the late '60s and partly out of pure adventure, these writers were making (and breaking) standards of traditional journalism as they went along.
		More artful in their chaos, Nick Tosches and Richard Meltzer (both of whom have been impressively anthologized by Da Capo) infused their writing with the free energy and pretension of the beat poets as much as the New Journalism movement.
		The Nick Tosches Reader contains hundreds of pieces, most with new introductions by the author, that flow chronologically from his music pieces to excerpts from his acclaimed biographies of Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin, through bits of fiction and poetry.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/12051 (510 words)

	'The Devil And Sonny Liston' by Nick Tosches
		It is much the same with Nick Tosches’ biography.
		It’s unfortunate for Tosches, an esteemed writer of runaway ability, that he is, in this volume, given to multiple literary orgasm again and again.
		Tosches then quotes longtime Liston friend and sparring partner Foneda Cox: “The Mafia picked up all of Sonny’s tabs when Sonny got into trouble.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20000604review503.asp (902 words)

	Nick Tosches : In the Hand of Dante
		Tosches recognizes the pages for what they are—and embarks on the most harrowing adventure of his life.
		It is every bit as deadly a struggle as that among the individuals fighting to possess his manuscript centuries later.
		In the Hand of Dante is a work of astounding audacity and beauty, combining Nick Tosches' vast scholarship about the Middle Ages with an equally intimate knowledge of the most degenerate lowlifes of New York's toughest streets.
	inthehandofdante.com (264 words)

	Nick Tosches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and poet.
		The Nick Tosches Reader, 2000, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80969-9
		"Saint Nick" by Mike Miliard, The Boston Phoenix, September 26, 2002
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_Tosches (469 words)

	Powell's Books - The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
		Tosches lays bare the tumultuous life and inevitable death of the original Mike Tyson.
		His portrait of a modern day Goliath, whose appetite for destruction and chaos led to his death, is a classic, rendering complete this son-of-a-sharecropper's doomed existence.
		Nick Tosches is an extraordinary writer — it is the vastness of Nick Tosches's heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness of Liston's life without sentimentality.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0316897752 (398 words)

	Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me: On The Web: vanityfair.com
		Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me: On The Web: vanityfair.com
		February 2007: Nick Tosches on the mysterious origins of a Windows desktop image
		March 2007: Steven Daly on the U.S.-led attempt to shut down the Pirate Bay, the popular site for illegal trading of video files
	www.vanityfair.com /ontheweb/features/2007/02/autumn200702 (997 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Nick Tosches
		Bio: Nick Tosches is the author of acclaimed biographies of Sonny Liston, Dean Martin, Mafia financier Michele Sindona, as well as other books.
		Thirty years of his work is collected in The Nick Tosches Reader.
		The manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches, near death and ready for anything, gets a phone call from a friend-there's a manuscript that needs authentication.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/NickToscheseBooks.htm (211 words)

	City Pages - Nick Tosches: <I>The Nick Tosches Reader</I> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nick Tosches Reader, as it's called instead, collects plenty of both: hallucinatory prose fragments, record reviews, alleged record reviews that never mention the record, profiles, obituaries, poems, song lyrics, journal scribblings, reveries, letters to his agent, one e-mail message, assorted fiction and fantasies, and several book excerpts.
		Much of what makes Tosches a great writer is his fearlessness, his willingness to take chances, and his absolute refusal to apologize if he fails.
		The Nick Tosches who emerges from this anthology is much the same kind of figure.
	www.citypages.com /databank/21/1014/article8655.asp (899 words)

	No Exit Press - Nick Tosches
		On the official biography site (Exit Wounds) Nick Tosches is described as follows:
		In other words Tosches grew up working in his father's New Jersey bars.
		He didn't go to college and later moved to lower Manhattan where, amongst other things, he began to write interviews and reviews for rock magazines like Creem and Fusion, selling his first article when he was 19.
	www.noexit.co.uk /tosches.htm (297 words)

	Johnny Depp \| Nick Tosches \| books : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Johnny Depp was in London last week with friend and writer Nick Tosches.
		The expat actor recorded the audiobook of Tosches' much-hyped September thriller ''In the Hand of Dante,'' reciting lines like ''Louie pulled off his bra and threw it down upon the casket.'' ''Johnny was one of the first people to read the book,'' says Tosches' agent Russell Galen.
		''Nick was prepared to kill the audio deal if Johnny couldn't read it.
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,261783_5_0_,00.html (334 words)

	12gauge.com 2002 - Nick Tosches Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nick Tosches Reader comprises—and, believe me, that is all I can bear to do: look, and not read, through them—it strikes me that, while the former, I did the latter.
		Words and phrases that enamored me, whether I had come upon them or they had come to me from within, were endlessly repeated, recycled, ridden like horses until they were dead.
		The Nick Tosches Reader, to be published this spring by Da Capo Press.
	www.12gauge.com /books_tosches.html (2059 words)

	Nick Tosches - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Nick Tosches - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
		Nick Tosches was born in Newark, New Jersey.
		He is the author of the novels Cut Numbers and Trinities.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000029918,00.html (93 words)

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