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May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/25/07: WRESTLING BABYLON On List of Recommended Books

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – Irvin Muchnick’s book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — is iisted as one of 14 books recommended by Louie Belina, on-air personality and program director of KZNE The Zone, Sports Radio 1150 AM in College Station, Texas.
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/25/07: East Bay Express Covers WRESTLING BABYLON Launch

The East Bay Express – Berkeley’s alternative weekly newspaper — has an amusing article in the current issue about the recent launch event at Black Oak Books for WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal.
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/22/07: Not Fit to Print in The New York Times

On April 4, The New York Times ran an article about pro wrestling under the headline “Wrestling Grabs the World by the Neck and Flexes.” Irvin Muchnick, author of the new book WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal, responded the same day with a letter to the editor, which The Times has not published.
May 11, 2009

4/20/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Gets Rave Review in Penn State Paper

WRESTLING BABYLON gets a rave review in today’s issue of The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at Pennsylvania State University.
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/18/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘The Edge with Tony Basilio’

Irvin Muchnick — author of WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – will be the guest on “The Edge with Tony Basilio,” the sports talk show on WVLZ-AM 1180 in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday, April 20.
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/17/07: WRESTLING BABYLON: Bestselling Wrestling Book at Barnes & Noble

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – Irvin Muchnick’s new book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — is now the bestselling wrestling book, and the fifth bestselling book in all sports, in the rankings at Barnes&Noble.com.
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/15/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Is ‘A Book Vince McMahon Wishes Was Never Published’ — Phil Mushnick, NY Post

From today’s column by Phil Mushnick, sports-media critic for the New York Post: Want to read a new book that Vince McMahon no doubt wishes was never published?
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/15/07: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘A Must-Have,’ Pro Wrestling Torch Says

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – Irvin Muchnick’s book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — is rated “a must-have” by columnist Sean Radican in Pro Wrestling Torch.
May 11, 2009

ARCHIVE 4/12/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Review at 411mania.com

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – Irvin Muchnick’s book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — is favorably reviewed today by Michael Weyer at the pop-culture site 411mania.com.
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