Jazzing With Peter Gunn

 

Jazzing With Peter Gunn

Tosh's Inspiration

 

Tosh's Inspiration

Tosh's Critique of Pure Reason

 

Tosh's Critique of Pure Reason

The Crime of Monsieur Lange by Jean Renoir

 

The Crime of Monsieur Lange by Renoir

Subscribe to The World of Tosh Berman

 

Subscribe to Tosh Berman's writings

MALAPARTE: A Biography by Maurizio Serra

 

MALAPARTE: A Biography by Maurizio Serra

Hugo Drax & DOGE (Part 2)

 

Hugo Drax & DOGE (Part 2)

Hugo Drax (Part 1)

 

Hugo Drax (Part One)

Book Review: "Lion" by Sonya Walger (NYRB)

 

Book Review: "Lion" by Sonya Walger

Calling Dr. Mabuse

 

Calling Dr. Mabuse

The End of February by Tosh Berman

 

The End of February by Tosh Berman

The Storm In My Head

 

The Storm In My Head by Tosh Berman

Sonya Walger, in Conversation with Tosh Berman, discusses her novel "Lion"

 

An engrossing work of autobiographical fiction about the relationship between an actress daughter and her larger-than-life father--the astonishingly assured debut novel of Sonya Walger, actress on Lost, For All Mankind, and more.

Lion is about an unlikely parent, more legend than presence in his daughter's life. He is a charismatic, dashing bon-vivant, a polo player, race car driver, cocaine addict, ex-con, pilot, and sky-diver. Born in the aftershocks of Argentina's greatest earthquake, he is like a minor god who comes down to earth in a grand manner, falling in all the ways there are to fall.

"It is hard to compete with adrenalin when you are a child," his daughter writes, now a mother herself to young children whose settled upbringing prompts her to consider her unconventional youth and the source of its chaos, her, by turns, loving, maddening, and magnetic father.

Lion is a double portrait told in a perpetual present tense that moves back and forth between present-day Los Angeles, where the narrator lives with her family and works as an actress, and the past of her peripatetic childhood, spent shuttling between her mother in England, boarding school, and her father and his successive wives in Buenos Aires and Lima.

Sonya Walger's stunning autobiographical debut is an emotionally acute palimpsest of a novel about a father and daughter, in which the drama and incident, love and tragedy that make up his life make up hers as well. The legend of his life and her distinctive and imaginatively charged telling of it make for an engrossing and unforgettable family saga.

Event date: 

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 7:00pm

Event address: 

Book Soup

8818 Sunset Boulevard

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Do I Belong Here?

 

Do I Belong Here?

Dreaming (My Brief Thoughts on the Zizians)

 

Dreaming (My Brief Thoughts on the Zizians

My Life on the Rocks

 

My Life on the Rocks

3,116

 

3,116 by Tosh Berman

If I Should Die Before I Wake

 

If I Should Die Before I Wake by Tosh Berman

A Force of Good

 

A Force of Good by Tosh Berman

My Stoical Soul (In These Desperate Times)

 

My Stoical Soul (In These Desperate Times)