Tosh Berman: Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World

Bookworm

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Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tosh Berman’s memoir, Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World, is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world: reinvented to be here.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:28.9	This is Bookworm.
0:30.7	Today my guest is Tosh Berman.
0:34.5	Now, Tash, for me, represents something that I love about Los Angeles.
0:42.3	I think shortly after I first knew him, he became the director of Beyond Baroque
0:49.3	and he was doing their weekly reading series.
0:52.3	I was going at that time practically every week and
0:55.9	attending the wonderful workshop at Beyond Baroque, which was, oh, Bob Flanagan was one of its
1:04.4	leaders, Dennis Cooper, Amy Gersler. We were all there showing the younger folk what poetry was every Wednesday.
1:15.9	That's very true.
1:16.8	And before us, Tom Waits used to go there.
1:21.7	X-Ean used to go there.
1:23.4	And John Doe of X?
1:24.8	A whole wild generation of interesting people.
1:28.4	Generation after generation.
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