Shavian reviewed Who's Running the Asylum? Inside the Insane World of Sports Today on + 15 more book reviews
The final volume of Wilt Chamberlain's autobiographical trilogy tends to polarize modern scholars. If "WILT - Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door" is his "Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man", and "A View from Above" is his "Ulysses" then "Who's Running the Asylum?" is his "Finnegans Wake." The most experimental in form, it's also the saddest and most elegiac. Perhaps consciously, this is The Dipper's last testament, so he reprises all of his favorite themes: the incompetence of journalists and referees, the inadequacy of today's athletes, and, above all, the sublime greatness of Wilt Chamberlain. We, the Lilliputian inmates, can only gaze skyward in awe at the giant who once walked among us.
