Originally Posted by
The Historian
I enjoyed the book too.
However, the author's subsequent life is a cautionary tale. His first memoir, Lummox, described his wild, fat, drunken, deceitful past. Some of that past came out in his nature after Heft on Wheels was published. He cheated on his wife, took up smoking and drinking, and put weight back on. He was wiped out financially after the divorce. It's another case of a person thinking weight loss and exercise are a cure for all your problems.
I agree. And while I enjoyed reading the very entertaining
Heft (partly because of his description of familiar haunts in and around SIU-C'dale, one of my almas mater), his fairly self-indulgent style wore on me a bit. When I read an article/interview he wrote about and with Greg Lemond in one of the magazines a year or two ago, the article became very much about him and his own divorce, instead of about Lemond, which to me is unforgivable in a writer.