Underrated Lost Classics #5

Falling Angel  William Hjortsberg

The Convict & other stories  James Lee Burke

Lost Weekend  Charles Jackson

Grave Error  Stephen Greenleaf

The Killing Floor  Arthur Lyons  

The Big Blowdown  George Pelecanos
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes  Lawrence Block
Tapping the Source  Kem Nunn
Night Train : The Sonny Liston Story  Nick Tosches
Mooch  Dan Fante

Under Cover of Daylight  James W. Hall
The Papers of Tony Veitch  William McIlvanney
The Big Con  David W. Maurer
The Devil's Home on Leave  Derek Raymond
I Married a Dead Man  Cornell Woolrich

More Underrated Lost Classics

Memory  Donald Westlake

Fast One  Paul Cain

Hell Hath No Fury (aka The Hot Spot)  Charles Williams

The Onion Field  Joseph Wambaugh

Trick Baby  Iceberg Slim

The Twenty Year Death  Ariel S. Winter

Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death  Tucker Coe
Ultimate Good Luck  Richard Ford
Night Train  Martin Amis
The Screaming Mimi  Frederic Brown

Cut Numbers   Nick Tosches
The Red Scarf  Gil Brewer
Casino Moon  Peter Blauner
Love is a Racket  John Ridley
Ride the Pink Horse  Dorothy B Hughes
The Long-Legged Fly  James Sallis

Fortune's Skirt

....... "that golden stitching in fortune's skirt that all men coveted".

Nick Tosches

Cut Numbers

1988

           http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2012/06/book-you-have-to-read-cut-numbers-by.html

The Darkest Side

           ...... as much about Liston and boxing as it is about the darkest side of the American dream.

Night Train - The Sonny Liston Story
Nick Tosches
Review/Time Out Magazine

https://www.inquirer.com/news/sonny-liston-documentary-lives-deaths-showtime-20191115.html

Long Black Train

       That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that rocket "88", that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness.

Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches

They Are Nobody

          Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or to be of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self -absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.

Nick Tosches

Me and the Devil

2012

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                     https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13701723-me-and-the-devil

Tosches

          Did humanity invent God simply to deal with the concept of good and evil ?

Woody Haut
on Nick Tosches work
November 2015

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Nick Tosches



https://martincompart.wordpress.com/category/nick-tosches/

Hymns to the Ring

Fat City - Leonard Gardner
The Professional - WC Heinz
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own - Jonathan Rendall
Rope Burns - FX Toole
The Devil and Sonny Liston - Nick Tosches
Great Men Die Twice - Mark Kram
Shadow Box - George Plimpton
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine - Thom Jones
The Harder They Fall - Budd Schulberg
The Set Up - James Moncure March
The Sweet Science -AJ Leibling
Fifty Grand - Ernest Hemingway
The Fight - Norman Mailer
The Devil's Stocking - Nelson Algren
The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
Pound for Pound - FX Toole
The Loser - Gay Talese

Rivages/Noir

Cut Numbers

                                             

          Clouds like gusted shadows of the dead moved past the Lenten moon drifting west toward Jersey. Louie saw them.
          The suitcase was heavy and unwieldy. As he came to Varrick street he put it down. He rubbed the fingers and palm of his right hand with his left. He lighted a cigarette, lifted the case, and continued on his way. He walked slowly not to lull the clanking of his load, but for him night's end was the best part of the day.

Cut Numbers- Nick Tosches 1988

https://martincompart.wordpress.com/category/nick-tosches/

More Lists

    For those of us addicted to lists here's more recent viewing/reading recommendations

FILM

Pickpocket (french)
Following
Bad Day at Black Rock
Miami Blues
Dead of Night
Carnival of Souls
Factotum
Paths of Glory
Point Blank
In the Mood for Love (chinese)
Lets get Lost
Mikey and Nicky
The Yakuza
Nightmare Alley
The Getaway
Sexy Beast
Rififi (french)
Fallen Angels (US tv short episodes x3)
The Set Up
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Last Seduction
Angelheart
Deerhunter
City of Industry
Kill Me Again
The Man who wasn't there
Year of the Dragon
Croupier
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Eastern Promises
Delusion
Blood and Wine
Crash (Cronenberg)
Rumblefish
JFK
Two Jakes
Save the Tiger
Mona Lisa
Brighton Rock
It Always Rains on Sunday

BOOKS

Woman Chaser- Charles Willeford
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes- Lawrence Block
The Jugger- Richard Stark
Browns Requiem-James Ellroy
New Hope for the Dead-Charles Willeford
No Beast So Fierce- Edward Bunker
New Noir-John Shirley
How to Kill-Kris Hollington
The Quiet American-Graham Greene
Cut Numbers-Nick Tosches
Nightmare Alley-William Lindsay Gresham
Color of Money-Walter Tevis
Factotum- Charles Bukowski
The Big Nowhere-James Ellroy
Savage Night-Jim Thompson
Cockfighter-Charles Willeford
Arizona Kiss-Raymond Ring