Nick Tosches

I first became aware of the snarky stylist a few years ago after reading a review of The Devil and Sonny Liston in the CJ, of all places. Fortuna's Wheel spun me to discover a stack of the text, a short time later, in the remaindered section of the now-departed Hawley Cooke. I bought several and Samizdat appeared equally fascinated by the baroque narration as well as the haunting (and haunted) subject. Roger has been the pointman in all subsequent endeavor, which has been prolific, coursing through Hand of Dante (a generous gift from Roger, some time back), the Tosches Reader and, now, King of Jews.