Book Review

I just reviewed the new Irvine Welsh book for the Spectator. Check it out at https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tedious-lazy-and-pretentious-irvine-welshs-men-in-love-is-a-disgrace/.

As you'll gather from the link, it is not a positive review. Here's my rather brutal final paragraph:

The impression one derives from Men In Love is that of Fat Elvis, sweating and unknowingly self-parodic in Las Vegas. Welsh desperately needs an editor with the guts to tell him this schtick isn’t working any more. To quote the Melody Maker on David Bowie: Sit down, man, you’re a fucking disgrace.