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 +The '''byline''' on a [[newspaper]] or [[magazine]] article gives the name of the writer of the article. Bylines are commonly placed between the [[headline]] and the text of the article, although some magazines (notably ''[[Reader's Digest]]'') place bylines at the bottom of the page to leave more room for graphical elements around the headline.
-'''Nicholas P. Tosches''' (October 23, 1949 – October 20, 2019) was an American [[journalist]], [[novelist]], [[biographer]], and [[poet]]. His 1982 biography of [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], ''[[Hellfire (Nick Tosches book)|Hellfire]]'', was praised by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."+==See also==
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-Tosches was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]] on October 23, 1949. His surname originated from [[Albanians|Albanian]] settlers in Italy, known as [[Arbëreshë people|Arbëreshë]]; his grandfather emigrated from the village of [[Casalvecchio di Puglia]] to [[New York City]] in the late 19th century.+* [[Byline strike]]
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-According to his own account, Tosches "barely finished high school". He did not attend college but was published for the first time in ''Fusion'' magazine at 19 years old. He also held a variety of jobs, including working as a porter for his family's business in New Jersey, as a [[paste up|paste-up artist]] for the Lovable [[underwear]] company in [[New York City]], and later, in the early 1970s, as a snake hunter for the [[Miami Serpentarium]], in Florida. A fan of early [[rock and roll]] and "oddball" records, he wrote for several [[rock music]] magazines, including ''[[Creem]]'' and ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. He was also reviews editor for ''[[Country Music (magazine)|Country Music]]'' magazine''.'' He has been described as "the best example of a good rock journalist who set out to transcend his genre and succeeded," and as someone who "along with [[Lester Bangs]], [[Richard Meltzer]] and a handful of other noble notables from the era... elevated rock writing to a new plateau." He was fired by ''Rolling Stone'' for collaborating with Meltzer in filing record reviews under each other's [[byline]].+* [[Dateline]]
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-Tosches' first book, ''[[Country (book)|Country: The Biggest Music in America]]'' (later retitled ''Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and Roll''), was first published in 1977. It was followed in 1982 by ''Hellfire'', a biography of [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], and in 1984 by ''Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis''. He subsequently wrote biographies of the singer and entertainer [[Dino (biography)|Dean Martin]], the [[Sicily#Demographics|Sicilian]] financier [[Power on Earth|Michele Sindona]], the [[heavyweight boxer]] [[The Devil and Sonny Liston|Sonny Liston]], the [[country music|country]] singer [[Where Dead Voices Gather|Emmett Miller]], and the [[Racket (crime)|racketeer]] [[King of the Jews (Nick Tosches book)|Arnold Rothstein]].+* [[Pen name]]
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-Tosches worked as a contributing editor of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine. His work was also published in ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' and ''[[Open City (magazine)|Open City]]''. He published four novels, ''[[Cut Numbers]]'' (1988), ''Trinities'' (1994), ''[[In the Hand of Dante]]'' (2002), and ''Me and the Devil'' (2012); and a collection 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.+* [[Strapline]], unrelated but often confused, this is a slogan or product name in advertising.
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-Tosches was featured on the [[Travel Channel]] show ''[[Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations]]'' in the episode "[[Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations#Season 5|Disappearing Manhattan]]", in which he and [[Anthony Bourdain|Bourdain]] shared a drink at Sophie's in the East Village, a [[Manhattan]] [[dive bar]], and discussed the changing nature of the city.+
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-Tosches died on October 20, 2019, at his home in Manhattan, three days before his 70th birthday.+
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The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name of the writer of the article. Bylines are commonly placed between the headline and the text of the article, although some magazines (notably Reader's Digest) place bylines at the bottom of the page to leave more room for graphical elements around the headline.

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