Recent Review of TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World (City Lights)

 

Here's a nice and recent review from an Amazon customer on my book TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World."

Tosh Berman had an enchanted childhood. I say enchanted, not perfect, but what a world to open a kid's eyes to the truth of art in its most piercing essence. Wallace Berman, Tosh's father was the premiere outlaw artist of LA in the 1950s and '60s, before art became commerce... and pablum. The stories within are pure gold for anyone seeking the palette of the LA scene of the time, and what it feels like to have been a kid amidst all that original hipster wonder. When Tosh brings up de Nerval's lobster, I knew we were on the same wave length... and then, he hung out with Toni Basil as a kid? She who choreographed David Bowie's Diamond Dogs extravaganza of a tour? Dig into this book and let Tosh's stories guide you into the extraordinary moments when as children, we begin to learn how to see. - Richard Koester