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Shelf Life: Junior Mac

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 04:47 AM

We love Macaulay, we really do, the dear. But we've kinda set ourselves up to represent all things Party Monster past and present – and now future. So with the March publication of Culkin's memoir posing as novel, Junior, looming, we feel obligated to link to an early Kirkus review via The Book Standard.

With Junior, an audaciously empty mishmash of poems, letters, comics, etc., former child star Culkin (of Home Alone fame) has managed to lower the already low bar set for celebrity fiction.

We're sure it's not that bad. Well, we thought it couldn't be, until we got a closer look at the book's subtitle that rambles all over the cover: (or) Oscar De La Mancha, The Wembling Warrior, and the People I Like the Least (A Novel). A written project from the normal, well adjusted and 'No I don't have issues with my father!' mind of...junior (meaning me).

Novel? But hey, Nicole Richie's The Truth About Diamonds made it to the LA Times' bestseller list. And we're pretty sure Mac himself actually put fingers to keyboard.

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Shelf Life: Junior Mac

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