Irvin Muchnick — author of WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – will read from and autograph copies of his book at the Borders in Sunset Hills Plaza (suburban St. Louis) at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 22.

Irvin Muchnick — author of WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal — will sign books at an event at the Pro Wrestling Shirt Shop at the Westfield South County Mall in St. Louis on Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m.

Of all the positive reviews of Wrestling Babylon, none has made me prouder than the one just posted at Amazon by Kevin Killian. Yes, that’s the Kevin Killian, the prolific and admired San Francisco poet/novelist/critic/playwright.

WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal – Irvin Muchnick’s book about pro wrestling behind the scenes — is reviewed in the April 25 issue of Play, a Philadelphia-area arts and entertainment weekly. Reviewer David J. Foster calls WRESTLING BABYLON “an acerbic anthology that tears into the storms that plagued the [WWE chief Vince] McMahon era, from illegal steroid use to the sex scandals.”

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.

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.