Oooh, I’m Sooo Bad (Now Buy My Book)

“Performing shameful, humiliating acts and then writing about it for profit are not new, perhaps, but the trend seems to be accelerating with the recent crop of sinners clutching book contracts. Such books seem to revel in their authors’ surpassing badness, in an unashamed — indeed, almost gleeful – recitation of sins. The public, presumably, goes tsk-tsk – and then turns the page for more.”