New Releases by Nick Tosches

Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader 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 Rolling Stone has said that "Tosches can write like a wild rockabilly raveup. He can be elegant as a slow blues." The Nick Tosches Reader 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 Vanity Fair 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.

The anti-Ali, Sonny Liston represents everything that is compelling and terrifying about boxing. An overwhelmingly powerful fighter, Liston rose from a desperately poor childhood to street criminal to world heavyweight champion. He then became the pawn of a series of criminal organizations and was shadowed throughout his life by government investigations, arrests, and the rumor of corruption. The Devil and Sonny Liston is not just the biography of a boxer; it is one of the greatest organized-crime stories ever told and confirms Toschess place as one of the most powerful and original writers of our time. Toschess acclaimed biography of Dean Martin, Dino, sold more than 110,000 copies From the rappers Wu-Tang Clan to writer Thom Jones, people are fascinated by Sonny Liston and by boxing in general. King of the World by David Remnick sold more than 100,000 copies. Tom Cruises Cruise/Wagner Productions is at work on a movie based on this book. A collection of Toschess best writing, The Nick Tosches Reader, is due out in 2000. Tosches is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair.

Un gang chinois et un gang italien se battent pour contrôler le trafic d''héroïne à New York. Ce simple affrontement devient un conflit entre plusieurs générations de gangsters pour qui la lutte contre les membres de leur propre famille peut aussi être mortelle. Un regard neuf, précis, sur la nouvelle génération des mafieux, fils d''immigrés mais complètement américanisés. " Trinités " est à coup sûr le livre le plus marquant écrit sur la mafia depuis " Burnett " et " Le Parrain ".

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 Newark. 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. --CUZ Editions.

A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity.

Louie vient d''un village d''Italie, juché sur une colline où les gens se régalaient d''œil d''agneau et où les jours où le vent soufflait dans le bon sens, il pouvait pisser sur le monde du bas de la colline. A New York, il est un petit arnaqueur de second rang. Un gamin que sa femme menace de quitter. Sa seule lumière, c''est son grand-père John de quatre-vingt-cinq ans, une gloire locale de la mafia New Yorkaise, spécialisée dans les arnaques à la loterie. John a une autre idée d''arnaque : un plan pour détourner plusieurs millions de dollars à la loterie d''Etat. L''ennui c''est que plus le gâteau est gros, plus les rats sont nombreux.

The Mafia, Asian drug lords, and Wall Street financiers wage an all-out war for control of the world''s multi-billion-dollar heroin trade, while a lawman fights a battle for his own soul

Profiles Hall of Fame inductees and discusses the development of music scenes and genres in this companion to the awards ceremony.

Portrays twenty-five people who made little-known contributions to rock ''n'' roll, and supplies a chronolgy of rock ''n'' roll.

In light of the designer jeans phenomenon, America''s fascination with and exploitation of the derriere is examined in text and photographs