“Words and wisdom that I shall carry with me into the fucking dirt.”
—Johnny Depp
“This is the best, from one of the best writers around. Nick Tosches knows the devil as well as any man has.”
—Keith Richards
“During his long career, Tosches has earned a reputation as a writer who doesn’t mess around. Hellfire, his 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest rock and roll biographies ever written; he’s responsible for the definitive boxing deconstruction, The Devil and Sonny Liston; and novels like Cut Numbers and In the Hand of Dante are uncompromising works that offer a dark worldview radically different from what passes as capital-L Literature these days.… Me and the Devil is Tosches touching his outer limits. It’s a compulsively readable tale of sadomasochistic obsession and Faustian misbehavior: a meta-rumination on aging, sex, and the nature of art.”
—Tony O’Neill, BlackBook
“Brilliantly bizarre.… The best-selling author of numerous fiction, nonfiction and poetry books, Tosches tells uncompromising and unforgiving tales of modern life’s devolution.… Read this book and you’ll believe the hype. The poignancy of this remarkable story is about fine lines—between love and hate, pleasure and pain, genius and madness, good and evil, and fact and fiction.”
—Don Oldenburg, USA Today
“If there was ever any doubt that Nick Tosches is the Dark Prince of literary fiction, Me and the Devil should settle the matter. The single most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril.”
“Nick Tosches has created an erotic asphalt odyssey that takes him on a subcutaneous awakening, drifting through a world of hallucinations, dark secrets, and dangerous desires.”
—Peter Wolf
“Nick Tosches’s book is dangerous, dark, sexy, beautiful, full of life, bursting with desires.”
—John Turturro
“I’m an admirer of anything and everything Nick Tosches writes.”
—Tom Robbins
“By turns profane, obscene, perhaps even blasphemous, Tosches’s fictional account of ‘the most diabolically fucked-up year of my life’ is like a cross between William S. Burroughs and J.-K. Huysmans.”
—Ron Hogan, Shelf Awareness
“From roots rockers to wise guys, Nick Tosches writes about the wild side of life with the erudition of a classics scholar.… Here’s a deep-thinker’s vampire’s tale.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“Nick Tosches’s head is a thrilling place to be.”
—Phil Dyess-Nugent, A.V. Club
“Nick Tosches is best known for penning erudite, bad-behavior-obsessed biographies that often read like novels. So it makes sense that this erudite, bad-behavior-obsessed novel Me and the Devil—about the boozy, gastronomic, sadomasochistic adventures of a writer named Nick—often reads like a memoir. Indeed, much of the fun comes from trying to divine the real from the fictive.”
—Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
“Another chapter in Tosches’s unflinchingly perverse literary output.”
—The New Yorker