WAITING PERIOD
by Hubert Selby, Jr.
List: $22.95
Published by Marion Boyars
Publication date: July 2002
ISBN: 0714530719

An anonymous man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun is delayed. Instead of killing himself, he decides to murder those who he feels deserve to die. Targeting a bureaucrat in the Veterans' Administration, he devises an ingenious method of murdering people without trace. With a renewed zest for living he embarks on a joyful killing spree, having found the true purpose of his existence.

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The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as it was when it was first published more than thirty-five years ago.

"Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years."
--Allen Ginsberg

"An extraordinary achievement,...a vision of hell so stern it cannot be chuckled or raged aside."
--The New York Times Book Review

"As dramatic and immediate as the click of a switchblade knife."
--Los Angeles Times

"The raw strength and concentrated power of Last Exit to Brooklyn make it one of the really great works of fiction about the underground labyrinth of our cities."
--Harry T. Moore

"Drops like a sledgehammer. Emotionally beaten, one leaves it a different person-slightly changed, educated by pain, as Goethe said."
--The Nation

"Selby has an unerring instinct for honing our collapse into novels as glittering and as cutting as pure, black, jagged glass."
--Saturday Review

"Scorching, unrelenting, pulsing."
--Newsweek

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Harry White was obsessed by the intoxication of danger--the intense inner turbulence of excitement. But Harry White's obsession proved too much for him.

"A freight train of a novel with a climax like a kick in the stomach!"
--William Burroughs

"Brilliant...Amazing power!"
--Newsweek

"A shocking, shattering novel of obsession...Devastating, dark, perfect!"
--Chicago Sun Times

"A man as surely hell-spawned as Rosemary's Baby...The Demon is terrifying!"
--Chicago Daily News

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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
(Classic Reprint Series)
by Hubert Selby, Jr.
List: $14.95
Paperback, 279 pages
Published by Thunder's Mouth Press
Publication date: May 1988
ISBN: 0938410563

In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital.

"Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists."
--New York Times Book Review

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SONG OF THE SILENT SNOW
by Hubert Selby, Jr.
List: $10.95
Reprint Edition
Paperback, 214 pages
Published by Grove Press
Publication date: October 1987
ISBN: 0802130089

THE ROOM
by Hubert Selby, Jr.
List: $14.95
Paperback, 224 pages
Published by Marion Boyars
Publication date: March 1998
ISBN: 0714530387

Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time petty criminal surrenders himself to the sadistic fantasies of hatred, rage and the powerless lust for revenge that are trapped inside him. Selby's second novel, the sequel to Last Exit To Brooklyn, is a claustrophobic descent into a man locked away in a loveless society.

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IN THE HAND OF DANTE
by Nick Tosches
List: $24.95
Hardcover
Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 0316895245
Publication date: September 2002 (1st edition)
Also available in Microsoft Reader and Adobe Reader E-Book formats.

WHERE DEAD VOICES GATHER
by Nick Tosches
List: $24.95
Hardcover
Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 0316895075
Pulication date: August 2001

From the publisher:
A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting narrative. For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodeling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues, and much of the popular music of the twentieth century.
Beginning with a handful of 78 rpm records and ending at a tombstone in a Macon, Georgia graveyard, Tosches pieces together a life-and illuminates the spirit of musicmakers from Homer to the Rolling Stones. This is a brilliant, inspired journey by one of the most original writers at work today.

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From the publisher:
Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss. Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand to Cambodia, he hunts the Big Smoke, bewildered by its elusiveness and, despite the meaning it continues to evoke as a cultural touchstone, its alleged extinction. Weaving his spiritual and hallucinogenic quests together with inimitable, razor-sharp prose, Tosches's trip becomes a deeper meditation on what true fulfillment is and why no one bothers to look for it any more.

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THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON
by Nick Tosches
List: $24.95
Hardcover 
Little Brown & Company
Publication date: August 2000
ISBN: 0316897752

Sonny Liston was the anti-Ali, a boxer whose strength needed no gloss. His rise to the world heavyweight championship was a march of unambiguous victories that left opponent after opponent crushed, but to many Americans in the early 1960's, he was their worst dream come to life--a thug, an illiterate, a criminal who was not, in the saying of the time, a credit to his race.

But he hit harder than any man alive. And in the pages of Nick Tosches's remarkable biography of Liston, hitting hard was the only recourse for this man who essentially lived his entire life as a slave. The Devil and Sonny Liston is Nick Tosches's brutal and stunning illumination of that life.

The truth behind Liston's infamous losses to Cassius Clay in 1964 and to the newly named Muhammad Ali in 1965 is revealed here in the inescapable words of Liston himself and those who knew him best. And in these pages the mysteries of Liston's death in Las Vegas are unfolded at last.

Written with a passionate intensity and an unrivaled knowledge of the workings of organized crime, The Devil and Sonny Liston is an instant classic of American biography by a man who has been hailed by the Dallas Observer as "one of the greatest living American writers."

"Nick Tosches writes like Sonny Liston hit."
--Chuck Wepner, boxer who fought both Liston and Ali.

"Tosches has found a way to successfully meld nuts-and-bolts journalism with a sardonic solipsism."
--Entertainment Weekly

"[A] carefully constructed collection...a complex and satisfying portrait not only of a time but of a deeply reflective and probing writer."
--Publishers Weekly

"The grandmaster of grit lit ... Nick Tosches writes elegantly about America's underbelly."
--The Boston Globe

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From the Publisher:
From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apologies.

"One-hundred-proof prose at its most scorching!"
-- Kirkus Reviews

"More than a biography; it's a tour de force...Keep[s] readers glued to the pages."
-- West Coast Review Of Books

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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. Chaldea is the place of all dark magic, deep within the lake of the heart; the place of resurrection, annihilation, and the breezes of all that is forbidden..." It comprises 25 poems and a story.

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Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

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The author of "Country" now offers a paean to a forsaken time of relentless excess, sudden ruin, and fierce music--the days of rock 'n' roll, long before Elvis came on the scene. 42 illustrations.

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"Quite simply the best Rock 'n' Roll biography ever written."
--Rolling Stone

"Tosches's book is a work of art."
--Boston Globe

"This book is undeniably a feat--Turning a sordid, tormented life into a rousing piece of poetic expression."
--Esquire

"Hellfire sets a new standard."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Hellfire" remains one of the most remarkable biographies ever written on Lewis . . . "nothing else comes close. . .  Sooner or later, "Hellfire" will be recognized as an American classic"
--Greil Marcus

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From the Publisher:
Trinities is a tale of evil. At its heart is the story of the apocalyptic final battle for control of the the world's multibillion dollar heroin trade--a battle between America's last generation of Sicilian Mafiosi are rich and ruthless Asian druglords. Set against a vivid backdrop that reaches from the streets of Brooklyn and Chinatown to the remote and secret power circles of Italy and the Orient, this is a stunning novel populated with characters who are in every way larger than life: opium warlords of the Shan highlands, soulless hitmen and equally soulless yuppie financiers, and a lawman whose journey into the forbidden reaches of his own soul is as compelling as the great conflagration that rages around him. Never before have the worlds of Asian druglords and the Italian mafia been portrayed with such deadly fidelity and insight. Written in lyrical, incandescent prose, Trinities takes us further into these worlds--incendiary, malevolent, and vicious--than any novel has before.

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From the publisher:
This stunning Mafia thriller, now available in paperback for the first time, bears many of the hallmarks of Tosches's celebrated nonfiction: an uncanny familiarity with the darkest chambers of the human heart and a wildly elastic prose style. As Cut Numbers unravels a diabolically elaborate scheme to fix New York State's lottery, it reveals the Mafia that only insiders know - not the powerful, well-oiled crime machine of myth, but the messy day-to-day business of violent crime, pornography, gambling, and extortion.

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From Booklist:
Tosches' alleged biography of Jewish gangster Arnold Rothstein certainly takes an interesting approach. After opening with Rothstein's death in 1928, Tosches embarks on a lengthy linguistic study of the Bible's change from "gods" to "God," then proceeds to debunk the myth that all European Jews came to the New World fleeing pogroms, pausing to explore early U.S.-Russian relationships, before even depicting Rothstein's grandparents' arrival in Manhattan in 1852. Along the way, he includes transcripts of a hearing regarding Rothstein's contested will and a first-person rant that starts by saying the Holocaust is inappropriately named. It's either deep, deep background or . . . what? Is Rothstein a Christ figure? A holy sinner? Was Jazz Age New York paradise? Is contemporary New York hell? Two-thirds of the way through, the book does start to be more "about" Rothstein. Writing in the first person again, Tosches says he's given up on the "tricks" of his trade, but all writing involves trickery; he's just opened a new bag. His book is sometimes boring, sometimes brilliant, often irritating. Readers looking for a gangster tale will be sorely disappointed--readers who want to know what it's like to live inside Tosches' head will hit the jackpot. -Keir Graff

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BLUE EYES AND EXIT WOUNDS

by Hubert Selby, Jr. and Nick Tosches
Limited edition, spoken-word CD. 60 mins.
 Released March 15,1998
$15.95