You know, I tore my way through Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams
Must rectify that, and do some posts on the book … (you know, in all my free time.)
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It’s an amazing work, isn’t it? I think if anyone, before that book, tried to float the proposition that Dean Martin was a key figure in American popular culture, they probably would have been laughed off the plane, but Tosches absolutely and righteously nails the case down.
Have you, by any chance, read his 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, ‘Hellfire’? If not . . . you should. Some of the writing in that book is jaw-dropping.
Tom – I have not read his Jerry Lee Lewis book but I have heard a ton of good stuff about it.
Didn’t he write a book, too, about looking for the world’s last opium den?
First of all: he is a magnificent writer. Reminds me a bit of james Ellroy – he has that darkness, that familiarity with demons … but there’s another level, too – the majestic, the poetic … He’s unbeLIEVable as a writer.
i also felt like he was working out some of his OWN demons thru the Dino book.
Really brave … I’ve never read a book like it.
(Come to think of it – James Ellroy also works out his own demons thru whatever book he writes) … I just think those kinds of writers are so courageous. Especially if they’re talented wordsmiths, I mean. I don’t care about your demons if you can’t write!! Ha! But those two guys CAN and it makes all the difference. They lead you down into their own darkness.