Irvin Muchnick, author of CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death, will be interviewed Friday on the Internet wrestling program Ringside with Ian Hamilton and Adam Firestorm. The show streams at TheRingsideLive.com beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern time (4 p.m. Pacific).
CHRIS & NANCY continues to be the hottest-selling independently published wrestling book at Amazon (behind only Hulk Hogan’s book and WWE branded merchandise).
Reviews of CHRIS & NANCY can be viewed at these links:
Randy Shaw / Beyond Chron
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/_Book_Exposes_Pro_Wrestling_s_Cocktail_of_Death_7522.html
David Bixenspan / SLAM! Wrestling
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Benoit/2009/10/22/11493831.html
Writer Anthony Roberts
http://www.anthonyroberts.co.za/?p=3651
Rich Tate / Georgia Wrestling History
http://gwhforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=news&thread=8210
Joe Babinsack / Wrestling Observer
http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/10962/
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
'Muchnick provides a great public service' -- Beyond Chron
Full text of Randy Shaw’s review in Beyond Chron of CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death is viewable at this link:
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/_Book_Exposes_Pro_Wrestling_s_Cocktail_of_Death_7522.html
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/_Book_Exposes_Pro_Wrestling_s_Cocktail_of_Death_7522.html
Monday, November 2, 2009
Muchnick's GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com Interview in Podcast Form
Irvin Muchnick’s October 30 interview on Ringside Rap on the Georgia Wrestling History Radio Network, with Mike Sempervive and Rich Tate, can be heard at http://www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com/gwhrn/home.html.
WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Final Twitter Feed, November 2
Follow @irvmuch at Twitter.
PARTS 397 – 400 (the end)
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 397 Yes, I did mean to say your email of this morning, not yesterday. I will shortly publish,
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 398 in order and as three individual dedicated posts, your email this morning
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 399 followed by the two earlier shown to you.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 400 THANKS FOR FOLLOWING THIS SERIES, WHICH NOW CONCLUDES. More info: http://muchnick.net/dvdinfo ...
PARTS 397 – 400 (the end)
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 397 Yes, I did mean to say your email of this morning, not yesterday. I will shortly publish,
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 398 in order and as three individual dedicated posts, your email this morning
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 399 followed by the two earlier shown to you.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 400 THANKS FOR FOLLOWING THIS SERIES, WHICH NOW CONCLUDES. More info: http://muchnick.net/dvdinfo ...
Muchnick's Chalenge to Wrestling Internet Radio Host Gary Cubeta
FOR FURTHER BACKGROUND, SEE:
CHRIS & NANCY: The Great Debate
CHRIS & NANCY Dustup at Fan Discussion Board
Muchnick to Cubeta
Monday, November 2, 2009 9:36 AM
From: Irvin Muchnick
To: Gary Cubeta
Dear Gary:
The publicist for my publisher, ECW Press, passed along your invitation for me to appear on your Internet radio show. Of course, I accept, but with three conditions that I think are reasonable under the circumstances. Let me list them and provide the full background for the readers of my blog and email list.
The conditions are:
1. Just you and me – no other guests.
2. The interview is live, not taped.
3. You begin the interview by reading the complete Introduction to my book CHRIS & NANCY.
Last week you posted a negative review on the Amazon page for CHRIS & NANCY. Below is the review in its entirety. (I came away with the impression that you regretted that Amazon didn’t provide an interface for block letters with crayon.)
My God what a depressing book … Torture to read … The case is closed. Benoit did the terrible crime and then killed himself. What else is to be said? … my opinions, yours may vary
On your Friday night show, you debated the virtues and defects of CHRIS & NANCY with wrestling book and DVD critic Derek Burgan. On the Wrestling Classics discussion board over the weekend, you conceded, “I had my hat handed to me in that debate.” (http://wrestlingclassics.com/.ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=103539;p=1; PDF version at http://muchnick.net/wrestlingclassics.pdf)
You had initiated the Wrestling Classics discussion board thread on CHRIS & NANCY, where the consensus seems to be that you failed to articulate why you consider it “the worst wrestling book ever.” Eventually you made two halfway coherent points: (a) that a Benoit book serves no purpose because it is well established that Chris Benoit committed the crimes, and (b) that you don’t like my writing style. On the latter point, you said I use too many big words and my sentence structure is too complex. (The only supporting example on the thread, not provided by you, was a sentence from one of my earlier books.)
That is why I attach the condition that you begin the interview by reading the entire Introduction. Your show has a lot of time and the Intro is only around 1,000 words – shouldn’t take that much time, and it sets up the content and style of my book in full context. Needless to add, you can proceed to fire away with whatever questions or comments you choose, and can read whatever other passages you consider poorly written or condescending. (In the Wrestling Classics thread, you offered this insightful gem: “i’ve spoken with a lot of insiders off air and they don’t think he can write either.” Believe it or not, these anonymous critics have not reduced me to tears.)
I look forward to your response.
Irv Muchnick
CHRIS & NANCY: The Great Debate
CHRIS & NANCY Dustup at Fan Discussion Board
Muchnick to Cubeta
Monday, November 2, 2009 9:36 AM
From: Irvin Muchnick
To: Gary Cubeta
Dear Gary:
The publicist for my publisher, ECW Press, passed along your invitation for me to appear on your Internet radio show. Of course, I accept, but with three conditions that I think are reasonable under the circumstances. Let me list them and provide the full background for the readers of my blog and email list.
The conditions are:
1. Just you and me – no other guests.
2. The interview is live, not taped.
3. You begin the interview by reading the complete Introduction to my book CHRIS & NANCY.
Last week you posted a negative review on the Amazon page for CHRIS & NANCY. Below is the review in its entirety. (I came away with the impression that you regretted that Amazon didn’t provide an interface for block letters with crayon.)
My God what a depressing book … Torture to read … The case is closed. Benoit did the terrible crime and then killed himself. What else is to be said? … my opinions, yours may vary
On your Friday night show, you debated the virtues and defects of CHRIS & NANCY with wrestling book and DVD critic Derek Burgan. On the Wrestling Classics discussion board over the weekend, you conceded, “I had my hat handed to me in that debate.” (http://wrestlingclassics.com/.ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=103539;p=1; PDF version at http://muchnick.net/wrestlingclassics.pdf)
You had initiated the Wrestling Classics discussion board thread on CHRIS & NANCY, where the consensus seems to be that you failed to articulate why you consider it “the worst wrestling book ever.” Eventually you made two halfway coherent points: (a) that a Benoit book serves no purpose because it is well established that Chris Benoit committed the crimes, and (b) that you don’t like my writing style. On the latter point, you said I use too many big words and my sentence structure is too complex. (The only supporting example on the thread, not provided by you, was a sentence from one of my earlier books.)
That is why I attach the condition that you begin the interview by reading the entire Introduction. Your show has a lot of time and the Intro is only around 1,000 words – shouldn’t take that much time, and it sets up the content and style of my book in full context. Needless to add, you can proceed to fire away with whatever questions or comments you choose, and can read whatever other passages you consider poorly written or condescending. (In the Wrestling Classics thread, you offered this insightful gem: “i’ve spoken with a lot of insiders off air and they don’t think he can write either.” Believe it or not, these anonymous critics have not reduced me to tears.)
I look forward to your response.
Irv Muchnick
Sunday, November 1, 2009
WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for November 1
For a live feed of this continuing series, follow @irvmuch at Twitter.
PARTS 385 – 396
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 385 but it does not attempt to weasle out of or undermine the retraction, which is all that’s germane
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 386 * Under the same principle as the publication of your complete email of yesterday (“more is
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 387 more”), I also am happy to publish subsequent to my second post an additional email by you
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 388 including the text of your paragraph beginning “Secondly,” as well as, perhaps, other general
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 389 commentary about whatever you find unsatisfactory about me
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 390 and my style of running corrections.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 391 Jerry McDevitt email to Irvin Muchnick, 6/18/09 4:05 p.m., “RE: Muchnick to McDevitt”
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 392 It was not my email of yesterday that you proposed to publish in less than complete fashion.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 393 It was the one this morning. As to the rest, you have my position on the adequacy
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 394 of your purported retraction and what is needed here. I do not intend to comment further,
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 395 and will do what is warranted when I see what you now do.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 396 Irvin Muchnick email to Jerry McDevitt, 6/18/09 4:33 p.m., “RE: Muchnick to McDevitt”
PARTS 385 – 396
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 385 but it does not attempt to weasle out of or undermine the retraction, which is all that’s germane
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 386 * Under the same principle as the publication of your complete email of yesterday (“more is
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 387 more”), I also am happy to publish subsequent to my second post an additional email by you
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 388 including the text of your paragraph beginning “Secondly,” as well as, perhaps, other general
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 389 commentary about whatever you find unsatisfactory about me
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 390 and my style of running corrections.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 391 Jerry McDevitt email to Irvin Muchnick, 6/18/09 4:05 p.m., “RE: Muchnick to McDevitt”
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 392 It was not my email of yesterday that you proposed to publish in less than complete fashion.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 393 It was the one this morning. As to the rest, you have my position on the adequacy
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 394 of your purported retraction and what is needed here. I do not intend to comment further,
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 395 and will do what is warranted when I see what you now do.
WWE on Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Pt. 396 Irvin Muchnick email to Jerry McDevitt, 6/18/09 4:33 p.m., “RE: Muchnick to McDevitt”
Just for Fun — Looking Back at ‘Night and the City’
I have a piece at SLAM! Wrestling today on the 1950 film noir classic Night and the City, which was set in London’s pro wrestling scene. The movie starred Richard Widmark but included two wrestlers, Stanislaus Zybszko and Mike Mazurki, in powerful supporting roles.
Link: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Movies/2009/07/09/10082721.html
Irv Muchnick
Link: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Movies/2009/07/09/10082721.html
Irv Muchnick
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