The Situation's New Book - Umberto Eco, step aside

7 Rejected Titles for The Situation's New Book

Umberto Eco, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon ... and Mike Sorrentino ... finally all together in the pantheon of modern literary geniuses.

Very few people realize that Sorrentino has a lot in common with these guys. Joyce was notorious for showing his abs to the ladies at Bantry Bay. Nabokov - in many a bar fight, and could easily kick Ezra Pound's ass. And Eco? Also known to all his admirers as "la situazione," although I think the reason had something to do with his multi-layered post-pre-modernist dichotomies or something. Or was it pre-post-modernist? Who cares? He and his buds were wasted when he got the nickname. Dude loved his tequila shooters.