At the fights
Subtitle: American writers on boxing
By: edited by George Kimball & John Schulian ; foreword by Colum McCann
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9781598530926
Subjects: Boxing stories; Boxing in literature; Boxing; Literary collections
Description: Features literary excerpts and articles written by sportswriters and authors that celebrate one hundred years of American boxing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-505) and index.
Table of contents: title: Johnson vs. Jeffries / Jack London; title: Cobb fights it over again / Irvin S. Cobb; title: Dempsey vs. Carpentier / H. L. Mencken; title: The orthodox champion / Heywood Broun; title: My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney; title: Brown bomber / Sherwood Anderson; title: Pity the poor giant / Paul Gallico; title: Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine; title: High tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a symbol of freedom / Richard Wright; title: Brownsville bum / W. C. Heinz; title: Night for Joe Louis / Red Smith; title: Down great purple valleys / John Lardner; title: As it was in the long ago / Frank Graham; title: Kearns by a knockout ; Ahab and nemesis / A. J. Liebling; title: Archie / Jimmy Cannon; title: The fight: Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin; title: Floyd Patterson / Gay Talese; title: from James Norris and the decline of boxing / Barney Nagler; title: The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton; title: Miami notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X / George Plimpton; title: Beethoven to boxing / Larry Merchant; title: Amen to Sonny / Joe Flaherty; title: Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap; title: from The fight / Norman Mailer; title: Pride of the tiger / Robert Lipsyte; title: "Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram; title: Nowhere to run / John Schulian; title: Roberto Duran's New York state of mind / Vic Ziegel; title: Sweeter than sugar / Leonard Gardner; title: The fight (the king is dead) ; from Moving pictures / Budd Schulberg; title: Then all the joy turned to sorrow / Ralph Wiley; title: Eight minutes of fury / Pat Putnam; title: Up the stairs with Cus D'Amato / Pete Hamill; title: from Paper trails / Pete Dexter; title: from The black lights / Thomas Hauser; title: Never say never: Ray Mancini's last fight / Bill Barich; title: Leonard-Hagler: the fight and its aftermath / George Kimball; title: Ringworld / Gerald Early; title: Still hungry after all these years / Richard Hoffer; title: Donfire of the vanities / Mike Lupica; title: Rape and the boxing ring / Joyce Carol Oates; title: My friend, my teacher / Jerry Izenberg; title: "The fight's over, Joe" / William Nack; title: The great (almost) white hope / Mark Kriegel; title: Kid Dynamite blows up: Mike Tyson / David Remnick; title: The knockout: Lucia Rijker / Katherine Dunn; title: from Compass points: how I lived / Edward Hoagland; title: Champion at twilight / Carlo Rotella.