Research Catalog

Title

The Nick Tosches reader / by Nick Tosches.

Author

Tosches, Nick.

Publication

[New York] : Da Capo Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xvii, 593 pages; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 2000

Alternative Title

Works. 2000

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 586-593).

Contents

• 1. Still/Life -- 2. Review of Paranoid -- 3. Review of Good Taste Is Timeless -- 4. Review of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -- 5. Absolutely Dead! -- 6. Leuk -- 7. The Heartbeats Never Did Benefits. 8. God-Crazed Hippies Reap Boffo B.O. -- 9. Be Bop A Lula -- 10. The Box -- 11. The 24-Hr Sound of Country Gospel and the Dark -- 12. Beyond Euclid: Pool! -- 13. The Real Avant-Garde -- 14. Review of Gately's Cafe -- 15. Muddy Waters Rarely Eats Fish -- 16. Eye: Disease -- 17. Review of The Mollusks of Tartura -- 18. Sex and Booze -- 19. Valerie -- 20. Screamin' Jay Hawkins and the Monster -- 21. Patti Smith -- 22. Country -- 23. Excerpt from Country -- 24. When Literary Lights Turn on the TV -- 25. Letter -- 26. Patti Smith: Straight, No Chaser -- 27. God Created Dean Martin in His Own Image, Then Stood Back -- 28. Jim Morrison: The Late Late Show -- 29. Blondie Plucks Her Legs -- 30. Review of Always Know --
• 31. The Gospel According to Jerry Lee -- 32. Journal Entry -- 33. A Christmas Carol -- 34. The Sea's Endless, Awful Rhythm & Me Without Even a Dirty Picture -- 35. The Sweet Thighs of Mother Mary -- 36. Pizza Man -- 37. Lust Among the Adverbs -- 38. Letter -- 39. Purity -- 40. Pizza Man -- 41. The Butt and I -- 42. Pleasant Brits and 180-Degree Spins -- 43. Excerpt from Hellfire -- 44. Felicity Opens Wide -- 45. Journal Entries -- 46. Good Book Made Better -- 47. Lust in the Balcony -- 48. Review of A Child's Adventure -- 49. Review of The Maximus Poems -- 50. Elvis in Death -- 51. Maybe It Was My Big Mouth - Carly Simon: Free, White, and Pushing Forty -- 52. Review of A Choice of Enemies -- 53. Review of The Garden of Priapus -- 54. Review of A House in the Country -- 55. Review of Renaissance and Reform -- 56. Excerpt from Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll -- 57. God Is My Cosponsor -- 58. Frankie: Part 1 -- 59. Hillary Brooke's Legs --
• 60. Elmer Batters -- 61. Review of Canned Meat -- 62. How to Pick Up Girls in Albania -- 63. Excerpt from Power on Earth -- 64. Excerpt from Frankie: Part 2 -- 65. Pentecostals in Heat -- 66. The Short-Shorts of Satan -- 67. Excerpt from Cut Numbers -- 68. Exile on Twenty-first Street -- 69. Review of Killer: The Mercury Years -- 70. Miles Davis: The Hat Makes the Man -- 71. James Douglas Morrison, 1943-1971 -- 72. The Singer Madonna Arraigned by the Ghost of Pope Alexander VI -- 73. Lester -- 74. Excerpt from Dino -- 75. Oedipus Tex -- 76. J. Edgar Hoover: The Burroughsian Nightmare -- 77. Memories of Joe -- 78. My Kind of Loving -- 79. George Jones: The Grand Tour -- 80. My Overcoat, My Brains, and Me -- 81. Notebook entry -- 82. Nightmare Alley -- 83. Excerpt from Trinities -- 84. Letter -- 85. The Holy City -- 86. Ophis Ovum Opium Ole -- 87. There's a Woman Here, Baby -- 88. Who Holds in Her Belly the Power of Life --
• 89. A Slab of Grease, a Bottle of Carbona, and Thou -- 90. Excerpt from "Entering the Barrens" -- 91. Requiescat Dino -- 92. De Niro -- 93. The Unfuckable -- 94. The Coin -- 95. Why I Am Great -- 96. Sea of Love -- 97. Faraglione 9/16/96 -- 98. If I Were Robert Stack -- 99. Letter -- 100. Letter -- 101. Letter -- 102. Letter -- 103. Letter -- 104. Spud Crazy -- 105. The Things I Got -- 106. Ash Wednesday -- 107. The Devil and Sidney Korshak -- 108. Excerpt from Where Dead Voices Gather -- 109. Night Train -- 110. Dear Privileged Intimate -- 111. Hymn for Charlie -- 112. E-mail -- 113. Please Be quiet - Please -- 114. From Chaldea -- 115. Excerpt from Scratch -- 116. Excerpt from In the Hand of Dante.

ISBN

0306809699 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00026749

OCLC

• ocm43656978
• SCSB-3883137

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries