Browsing Tag Ernest Hemingway

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  Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder

  “I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.”  ...

  On March 6, 2021 / By Lee Wylie
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  Hemingway, Fitzgerald & The Round That Went Too Long

  “My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything.” So said the one and only Ernest Hemingway, one of the twentieth century’s most captivating and revered writers. Best-selling literary ...

  On December 13, 2020 / By Sean Crose
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  Shadow Box

  Even if it had nothing else going for it—something very far from the truth— Shadow Box by George Plimpton will forever remain a bastion of boxing literature because of the ...

  On March 9, 2020 / By Rafael García
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  The Bittersweet Science

  “The more you know about boxing, the more you discover that you never truly know what’s going on,” write editors Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra in their introduction ...

  On January 23, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Scribe Of “The Fancy”

  Great stories always involve great characters, so it makes sense that so many fiction writers have taken boxers as their subjects. Few sports make such drastic demands on ...

  On January 15, 2018 / By Joshua Isard