The Writer’s Coin

I love boxing. More specifically, I love to watch the weigh-in interviews when both fighters are so cocky and so convinced that they’re going to knock the other guy out. If you don’t know anything about their records or their abilities (which I usually don’t), then you’d be hard pressed to pick a winner from [...]

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This is a short book of essays about boxing. The author, who happens to teach English at Boston College (I had no idea), calls it “an education at the fights” because he is a professor and he organizes the essays to sort of “teach” readers what he’s learned about boxing and from boxing.
Unfortunately, you never [...]

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