Nick Tosches who wrote this article early on in his career is still pumping out novels, biographies and other works in his own unique, raw and sometimes disturbing, style. Heck, he was just a kid when he wrote this! A friend of Ed Sanders when Sanders had his book store, Tosches chronicles the evolution of The Family.
I do like sharing these older articles most of which are not totally unheard of but rarely posted in their entirety.
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ReplyDeleteSorry, but I think Nick Tosches is a pretentious fraud. I've bought and read some of his rock and roll books where he tries to elevate simple exciting music to "grandeur" with lofty phrases and know-it-all attitude. That he was a teenager when he wrote this (if true) is proof.
ReplyDeleteNot quite a teenager when he wrote this, goomba, he was 21 years old. That's pretty young from my today's aged perspective! Tosches seems to be one of those authors you love or hate. What struck me is the style of his writing then, as I couldn't decide who was emulating who, Sanders or Tosches. I also did not know that Sanders had completed a book on the Manson saga only to scrap it and do an entire rewrite.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/c476c7bc5f5f4b89b5768dedf4c8ef17/US--Helter-Skelter-Co-Author-Dies
ReplyDeleteCome on Matt get with it. Am I gonna have to start blogging agayne?
ColScott said...
ReplyDeleteCome on Matt get with it. Am I gonna have to start blogging agayne?
It's aliiiive!
It never died. The truth continues. Kenneth Anger walks. Jon Aesnihil breathes. Gentry died and you should cover it.
ReplyDeleteGentry is a non-story, or we would have covered it. Was the ghostwriter of Mein Kampf's death a story?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Is this a WW2 blog?
ReplyDeleteIt's a non story because you say so?
Okay that's the challenge then!
I challenge you to put up a blog post. Any post will do...
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