Dino: Living High in the Dirty Busine...
Nick ToschesOnly a handful of showbiz biographers can lay claim to posessing the literary acumen of writers like Michael Holroyd and Peter Ackroyd. Nick Tosches is one of these writers, and his unauthorized biography of Dean Martin stands as a te...
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
Nick ToschesThe life of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most dramatic and tormented in rock 'n' roll history. 'Hellfire' remains one of the most remarkable biographies ever written on Lewis . . . 'nothing else comes close. . . . Sooner or later, 'H...
In this exuberantly acclaimed bestseller, Nick Tosches tells the tale of two odysseys: the efforts of Dante Alighieri to weave out of the grossness of his own humanity a poem that contains the sum of the world's wisdom and the very br...
King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob St...
Nick ToschesA sprawling portrait of the notorious gambler and New York City businessman Arnold Rothstein examines the numerous myths that surrounded his life, from his alleged links to the "Black Sox" scandal and the fixing of the 1919 ...
A raw and blazing novel by "the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril." (Anthony Bourdain) An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone t...