Two Additional Blurbs for "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World" (City Lights)

Photo by Wallace Berman.  Copyright by the Wallace Berman Estate and the Kohn Gallery

Two more blurbs for my book "Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World": One from a writer I admire greatly Michael Bracewell and the other from Jason Schwartzman, an actor, and a great fellow. I'm grateful for the support that they give me, but also from the other artists/writers who comment on my book. Thank you all! - Tosh Berman

"What compels about Tosh Berman's gorgeously written memoir is the proximity of the quotidian and the familiar to the extraordinary, the shocking even, and the enviably glamorous. He recounts a coming of age in which the unexpected laces the ordinary as surely at it does in Alice In Wonderland—only for Tosh, growing up, a cast of artists, nutcases, iconoclasts, stars, and extremists of all kinds provide the distraction and disruption once supplied by the White Rabbit or Cheshire Cat. Add to this his exemplary taste in, and understanding of, a particular pop sensibility—TV, music, Warhol, and comic books. That then heady and head-spinning world, soundtrack to a sentimental education, that was for the young romantics of the mid-twentieth century what clouds and peaks were to those of mid-nineteenth. Brava, Tosh Berman!"—Michael Bracewell, writer

"This book is perfection. I wish it went on forever. Maybe, somehow, it does.TOSH is almost like a giant map of small city . . . Each sentence is a street. Each chapter is an era. Each memory revealing a secret passage from one place to the next . . . TO READ IT is to WALK IT with Tosh Berman." —Jason Schwartzman, actor