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Irvin Muchnick, author of WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal was interviewed live this morning on KCBS, AM 680, the all-news station in San Francisco, by anchors Margie Shafer and Dave Padilla.

WRESTLING BABYLON author Irvin Muchnick is making the following appearances in Bay Area media on the eve of the launch reading at Berkeley’s Black Oak Books on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m.:

WRESTLING BABYLON author Irvin Muchnick was interviewed this morning on the KNBR (AM 680 San Francisco) Morning Show with Murph & Mac.

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – Irvin Muchnick’s book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — drew more than 100 people and sold out the bookstore’s stock of 30 copies at the book’s launch event last night at Black Oak Books in Berkeley, California.

Irvin Muchnick, author of WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal, will be interviewed Wednesday, April 4, on “Figure Four Daily,” an Internet radio show for subscribers of Bryan Alvarez’s Figure Four, one of the leading newsletters covering pro wrestling.

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal is reviewed briefly, and positively by Mark Hanzlik in this week’s issue of the Sacramento News & Review.

WRESTLlNG BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal (ECW Press) – Irvin Muchnick’s new book about pro wrestling behind the scenes – is the second hottest-selling title in its category in current Amazon.com rankings.

Irvin Muchnick — author of WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal, the new book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — was interviewed by host Brian Thomas on the webcast “The Daily Suplex” on April 9.

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal includes an appendix listing nearly 100 pro wrestlers who died under the age of 50 from 1985 through 2006 from causes related to the wrestling lifestyle. In a disclaimer, I note that this list is woefully incomplete.