Product Description: A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw.Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius...read more

Product Description: Once upon a time, Nick Tosches was a young boy. An Interview with Nick Tosches by Benoît Laudier of Éditions Vagabonde BL : Who is Johnny? NT: Johnny is me, long ago, and seen through the veil of fiction. As with all memories, it is more imagination than reality...read more

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 to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he enters a new and unimagined dimension of the forbidden and is filled with a sexual and spiritual ecstasy that is as intense as it is unholy.Suddenly Nick's senses are alive. He feels strong, unconquerable, beyond all inhibition and earthly morality. He indulges in life's pleasures, pure and perverse, sublime and dangerous, from the delicate flavors of the perfect tomato to the fleshy beauty of a woman's thigh. But Nick's desire to sustain his rapture leads him to a madness and a darkness far greater and dreadful than have ever ridden the demon mares of night.Writing in a lineage that includes Dante, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby, Jr., and Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches may be America's last real literary outlaw-a fearless, uncensorable seeker of our deepest secret truths and desires, from the basest to the most beautiful. Me and the Devil is outrageous, disturbing, and brilliant, a raw and blazing novel truly unlike any other. Like the man said: Read him at your peril.

Product Description: Back to the Land. Urban communes. Sustainable cooperatives. Thirty years ago, alternative communities swept the nation. Today, with sustainability, peak oil and retirement concerns, people of all ages are reviving and expanding notions of cooperative living as new communities form and thrive...read more

A landmark treasury of stories, poems, and other writings considers the themes of life as experienced by Italian Americans, in a volume that includes contributions by more than sixty authors, including Don DeLillo, Gay Talese, Mario Puzo, Richard Russo, Nicholas Pileggi, and Ken Auletta. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Traces the life of Emmett Miller, an obscure blackface performer from the early days of jazz, discussing his music and its significance in terms of the evolution of jazz, country, blues, and popular music of the twentieth century.

Product Description: Murderous thugs seek to profit from a recently unearthed original manuscript of Dante's Inferno in the Vatican, and send writer Nick Tosches to Rome to authenticate the find, but he has plans of his own should the manuscripts prove genuine, in a novel alternating between the present and fourteenth-century Italy, with Dante Alighieri searching for the perfect inspiration to complete his masterwork...read more

Presents a collection of columns that cover the world of animation and animated film festivals.

A music writing that talks about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

A 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 World Series, to his inspiration of literary and stage characters. Reprint.

A treasury of stories, poems, and other writings considers the themes of life as experienced by Italian Americans, in a volume that includes contributions by such authors as Don DeLillo, Gay Talese, Mario Puzo, and Ed McBain.

The discovery of an original manuscript of Dante's Inferno in the Vatican archives finds writer Nick Tosches heading for Rome to authenticate the find. Reprint.

The author, fueled by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal needs, details his mesmerizing quest--part spiritual, part hallucinogenic--from Europe to Cambodia, in search of the mysterious opium den, ultimately discovering the key to true fulfillment. 20,000 first printing.

A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime. By the author of Power on Earth. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Louie the loan-shark's life is a big nothing until he becomes caught up in his uncle's ingenious scheme to rig the state lottery, and then he has more excitement than he can handle, in a new edition of the acclaimed author's first novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Presents selections of the author's best fiction, poetry, interviews, investigative journalism, and criticism from the past thirty years, including articles focusing on rock and roll and cultural icons. (view table of contents)

A biography of Jerry Lewis' partner in comedy discusses Martin's Ohio childhood, his rise to the heights of fame as a singer, his uneasy partnership with Lewis and the Rat Pack, and his troubled personal life

A look at the early history of rock music focuses on influential, but overlooked singers and musicians, including Big Joe Turner, Louis Prima, Bill Haley, The Clovers, and Screamin Jay Hawkins

Product Description: 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 Newark...read more