
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
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JOHN SCHULIAN was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Daily News before moving to Hollywood, where he was the co-creator of Xena: Warrior Princess. He is the author of Writers' Fighters and Other Sweet Scientists. Both are recipients of the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism, awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the paperback edition
- Foreword, by Colum McCann
- Disarming Candor, an Introduction by George Kimball
- The Fist and the Pen, an Introduction by John Schulian
- Jack London
- Johnson vs. Jeffries
- Irvin S. Cobb
- Cobb Fights It Over Again
- H. L. Mencken
- Dempsey vs. Carpentier
- Heywood Broun
- The Orthodox Champion
- Gene Tunney
- My Fights with Jack Dempsey
- Sherwood Anderson
- Brown Bomber
- Paul Gallico
- Pity the Poor Giant
- Bob Considine
- Louis Knocks Out Schmeling
- Richard Wright
- High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom
- W. C. Heinz
- Brownsville Bum
- Red Smith
- Night for Joe Louis
- John Lardner
- Down Great Purple Valleys
- Frank Graham
- As It Was in the Long Ago
- A. J. Liebling
- Kearns by a Knockout
- Ahab and Nemesis
- Jimmy Cannon
- Archie
- James Baldwin
- The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston
- Gay Talese
- Floyd Patterson
- Barney Nagler
- from James Norris and the Decline of Boxing
- Murray Kempton
- The Champ and the Chump
- George Plimpton
- Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X
- Larry Merchant
- Beethoven to Boxing
- Joe Flaherty
- Amen to Sonny
- Dick Schaap
- Muhammad Ali Then and Now
- Norman Mailer
- from The Fight
- Robert Lipsyte
- Pride of the Tiger
- Mark Kram
- Lawdy, Lawdy, He's Great
- John Schulian
- Nowhere to Run
- Vic Ziegel
- Roberto Duran's New York State of Mind
- Leonard Gardner
- Sweeter than Sugar
- Budd Schulberg
- The Fight (The King Is Dead)
- from Moving Pictures
- Ralph Wiley
- Then All the Joy Turned to Sorrow
- Pat Putnam
- Eight Minutes of Fury
- Pete Hamill
- Up the Stairs with Cus D'Amato
- Pete Dexter
- from Paper Trails
- Thomas Hauser
- from The Black Lights
- Bill Barich
- Never Say Never: Ray Mancini's Last Fight
- George Kimball
- Leonard-Hagler: The Fight and Its Aftermath
- Gerald Early
- Ringworld
- Richard Hoffer
- Still Hungry After All These Years
- Mike Lupica
- Donfire of the Vanities
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Rape and the Boxing Ring
- Jerry Izenberg
- My Friend, My Teacher
- William Nack
- The Fight's Over, Joe
- Mark Kriegel
- The Great (Almost) White Hope
- David Remnick
- Kid Dynamite Blows Up: Mike Tyson
- Katherine Dunn
- The Knockout: Lucia Rijker
- Edward Hoagland
- from Compass Points: How I Lived
- Carlo Rotella
- Champion at Twilight
- Sources and Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
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