of poetry, Chaldea and I Dig Girls (1999). He also worked on Never Trust a Loving God, a book he did in collaboration with his friend the French painter Thierry Alonso Gravleur. He described his literary influences as "Hesiod, Sappho, Christopher Marlowe, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, Charles Olson, and God knows who else." A compendium, The Nick Tosches Reader, collects writings from over the course of his career. Tosches was featured on the Travel Channel show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in the episode "Disappearing Manhattan", in which he and Bourdain shared a drink at Sophie's in the East Village, a Manhattan dive bar, and discussed the changing nature of the city. Tosches died on October 20, 2019, at his home in Manhattan, three days before his 70th birthday. Bibliography Biographies 1982 – 1984 – 1986 – 1992 – 2000 – 2001 – 2005 – Fiction and poetry 1988 – 1994 – 1999 – 2002 – 2012 – 2014 – 2015 – Journalism 1977 – 1984 – 1991 – 1999 – 2002 – 2009 – 2011 – Collections 2000 – Discography Blue Eyes and Exit Wounds, with Hubert Selby Jr., produced by the author Harold Goldberg, 1998 Nick & Homer, with Homer Henderson, 1998 Fuckthelivingfuckthedead, 2001 For the taking: Vol. I from CHALDEA Autohagiography, with Austin Brookner, 2018 Film and television appearances Louis Prima: The Wildest!, 1999 Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow, 2005 Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film, 2006 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in the episode "Disappearing Manhattan", 2009 References External links Brief bio Rolling Stone Vanity Fair Episode 579 – Nick Tosches of WTF with Marc Maron 1949 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American biographers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American poets 21st-century American biographers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American poets American male novelists American male poets American music critics American people of Arbëreshë descent Boxing writers Novelists from New Jersey Writers from Newark, New Jersey American male biographers