Tosh Berman Interviewed by Robert Scheer for "Scheer Intelligence"

Tosh Berman interviewed by Robert Scheer for "Scheer Intelligence"

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