Tosh Berman and Andrew Lampert on TOSH at Artbook @ MoMA PS1

This event is free and open to the public. E-mail booksmomaps1@artbook.com to pre-order a signed copy of TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World. Book Space Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City, NY 1110 (718) 433-1088

Interview with Tosh Berman on The Please Kill Me website

Photo by Wallace Berman

Please Kill Me Interview with Tosh Berman

Largehearted Boy: Tosh Berman's Playlist for his Memoir "TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

"For us Topanga citizens, Neil Young was the cultural king of the area, and his band, Crazy Horse was his knights around the table. My dad was friendly with Neil, but his close friends Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, and George Herms were very close to the musician, and it was a regular event to see Neil and Crazy Horse either playing at the local bar, ‘The Topanga Corral’ or at a venue in greater Los Angeles."

Tosh Berman shared a playlist for his memoir, Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World, at Largehearted Boy.

Largehearted Boy: Tosh Berman's Playlist for TOSH

Tosh Berman and Jason Schwartzman discussing "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" at Skylight Books

Photo by Janet Grey

It was a treat for me to do an event and signing at Skylight Books in Los Feliz (Los Angeles). The crowd was amazing and I enjoyed the conversation with Jason Schwartzman about my book "Tosh." Jason is a very good friend, and it was comforting for me to be in front of the audience with his presence.  I want to thank Skylight Books for hosting, and just being a fantastic bookstore.  So thank you!

Here's the discussion:  

Tosh Berman and Jason Schwartzman at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. January 24, 2019

Tosh Berman with Gillian McCain discussing "TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" at McNally Jackson (Brooklyn)

Tosh Berman discusses "TOSH" with Gillian McCain at McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn. 

Event date:
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
76 N. 4th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249

Tosh Berman and Kevin Sampsell at Powell's Books in Portland

Some photos from Tosh Berman's reading/signing/discussion with author Kevin Sampsell at Powell's in Portland last Monday. A great event in a fab town and an awesome book store! - Kimley Maretzo

Tosh Berman, in Conversation with Lisa See, discusses and signs "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" at Book Soup

Event date: 

Book Soup, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 7:00pm

Event address: 

8818 Sunset Blvd

West Hollywood, CA 90069

TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture, Tosh Berman's father, Wallace Berman, was known as the "father of assemblage art," and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife, famed beauty and artist's muse Shirley Berman, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art, music, and literature, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through.  Tosh's unconventional childhood and peculiar journey to adulthood feature an array of famous characters, from George Herms and Marcel Duchamp to Michael McClure and William S. Burroughs, to Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell, to the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and Toni Basil.  TOSH takes an unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of his unusual upbringing by an artistic genius with all-too-human frailties, against a backdrop that includes The T.A.M.I. Show, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Easy Rider, and more. With a preface by actress/writer Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Wallace's friend, actor Russ Tamblyn), TOSH is a self-portrait taken at the crossroads of popular culture and the avant-garde. The index of names included represents a who's who of mid-century American--and international--culture. (City Lights Books)

Event date: 

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 7:00pm

Event address: 

8818 Sunset Blvd

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World (Paperback)

By Tosh Berman, Amber Tamblyn (Preface by) 

$17.95 

ISBN: 9780872867604 

Availability: On Our Shelves Now 

Published: City Lights Books - January 15th, 2019

Tosh Berman on BOOKWORM

Photo by Christopher Ho

"A book that takes place at the meeting point of the art, film, music, and literary world of a certain Los Angeles, during the transition between beat culture and 60s counterculture, written from the perspective of Tosh Berman as a teenager. Learn about the artistic morality of Tosh’s father, Wallace, an assemblage artist with great originality and notable admirers. Tosh’s mother Shirley acts as a bridge between popular culture and the avant-garde.

Living in Topanga, Tosh discovers rock music, science fiction, even magick (yes, with a ‘k’). Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world and remade to fit the special conditions and requirements of Los Angeles."  Bookworm, KCRW

Tosh Berman interviewed by Michael Silverblatt

Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World: An Interview with Tosh Berman/ Dangerous Minds

Photo by Wallace Berman of Tosh Berman, San Francisco 1959 Copyright of the Wallace Berman Estate

Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World: An Interview with Tosh Berman/ Dangerous Minds by Matthew O'Shannessy

Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World: An Interview with Tosh Berman

Citizens of the World can Special Order "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

Dear Future Readers, I just want to let you know that you can now special order my book "Tosh" Growing up in Wallace Berman's World" at your local bookstore. What you do is call or go into your local store, give them the title above, and then if you need to, give them the ISBN number which is 9780872867604. And I believe a foreign bookstore can order the book for you as well. Ingram is a wholesaler that sells books to bookstores, and they now have my book in their warehouse. So order away, and enjoy reading my book - Tosh Berman. Photo by Lacy Soto at the Artbook location in Los Angeles.

Book Review of TOSH by Donald Brackett (Critics at Large)

Photo by Wallace Berman

A very thoughtful review of my book "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" by Donald Brackett. I'm (and City Lights) lucky to have such a wonderful reader. - Tosh Berman

Critic at Large: It's Been a Hard Day's Life: Growing Up Berman

Tosh Berman on Bookworm Radio Show

Photo by Lun*na Menoh

Tosh Berman on Michael Silverblatt's "Bookworm" radio show. What more can I possibly want in my life? - Tosh Berman

Tosh Berman at City Lights Books

My book "TOSH" at City Lights Books

Photo by Kathy Stevens

Photo by Kathy Stevens

Review from Sensitive Skin Magazine on "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

Wow! A great review from Marc Olmsted. For Sensitive Skin Magazine. Read it here:


https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-review-marc-olmsted/

TOSH BERMAN DISCUSSES HIS MEMOIR "TOSH" WITH JASON SCHWARTZMAN at the fantastic, wonderful, and one of my second-homes, Skylight Books in my (I do own) Los Angeles. Bookstores mean a lot to me. I like going to the store, and hanging out, and just noticing not only the books on the shelves but also the people who come in and out like a wave hitting a beach. Like being in a record store, I never ever had a bad time in a bookstore. Skylight Books is (sort of ) walkable from my headquarters, and a delight in every visit. Also, they have a killer Graphic Comic section. Do support your local book store. For one, you can preorder my book, signed, and they will even mail it to you, wherever you leave your hat (or wig). For those who will go, here's the info:

Event date:

Tosh & Jason at Skylight Books

Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 7:30pm

Event address:

1818 N Vermont Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90027

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Tosh's 4th promotion video for his "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights) with an introduction by Amber Tamblyn

Episode 1, Tosh Berman by A.G. Geiger Presents, Tales from the L.A. Art Underworld

Tosh Berman interviewed by A. G. Geiger Presents (Michael Delgado)

Joseph Nechvatal of Hyperallergic.com reviews "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

Read the review by Joseph Nechvatal here: 

Growing Up in the Avant-Garde Circles of Wallace Berman

Dennis Hopper - Interview Retrospective 2008 | part 1 (Wallace Berman)

Dennis Hopper was an old friend of my dad, Wallace Berman.  Here's an interview he gave for Arte.tv regarding knowing and hanging out with my dad. I wrote about this in my book "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)   Thanks to Kevin Bradford for bringing this footage to my attention.

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