Title: abysmal
Product review: In one of the great all-time perversions of celebrity, Mike Lupica, sports columnist turned novelist, has perpetrated an incredible hoax: somehow, on his sheer "charisma," he's built a reputation for having something interesting to say, and, more remarkably, as a writer of some talent and significance. The reality is that Lupica has never had fresh, original takes on anything. His distinction, if he has one, is to be about the dullest, most insipid, prose writer ever to earn a living pumping out copy. The success and glowing reviews of his latest, brutal novel is just another persuasive argument that, sometimes, "image is everything." Lupica, the heterosexual Richard Simmons, does have one indisputable talent: self-promotion. As a writer, he's an unmitigated disaster, and those who argue otherwise are either deluded or simply enjoy reading on a third-grade level.
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