Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing
has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn
to it have truly known the sport and most have never been in the
ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or
cynicism common to writing on boxing, The Bittersweet Science is a
collection of essays about boxing by contributors who are not only
skilled writers but also have extensive firsthand experience at
ringside and in the gym, the corner, and the ring itself. Editors
Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra have assembled a roster of fresh
voices, ones that expand our understanding of the sport's primal
appeal. The contributors to The Bittersweet Science journalists,
fiction writers, fight people, and more explore the fight world's
many aspects, considering boxing as both craft and business, art
form and subculture. From manager Charles Farrell's unsentimental
defense of fixing fights to former Gold Glover Sarah Deming's
complex profile of young Olympian Claressa Shields, this collection
takes us right into the ring and makes us feel the stories of the
people who are drawn to or sometimes stuck in the boxing world. We
get close-up profiles of marquee attractions like Bernard Hopkins
and Roy Jones Jr., as well as portraits of rising stars and
compelling cornermen, along with first-person, hands-on accounts
from fighters' points of view. We are schooled in not only how to
hit and be hit, but why and when to throw in the towel. We
experience the intimate immediacy of ringside as well as the dim
back rooms where the essentials come together. And we learn that
for every champion there's a regiment of journeymen, dabblers, and
anglers for advantage, for every aspiring fighter, a veteran in
painful decline. Collectively, the perspectives in The Bittersweet
Science offer a powerful in-depth picture of boxing, bobbing and
weaving through the desires, delusions, and dreams of boxers, fans,
and the cast of managers, trainers, promoters, and hangers-on who
make up life in and around the ring.Contributors: Robert Anasi,
Brin-Jonathan Butler, Donovan Craig, Sarah Deming, Michael Ezra,
Charles Farrell, Rafael Garcia, Gordon Marino, Louis Moore, Gary
Lee Moser, Hamilton Nolan, Gabe Oppenheim, Carlo Rotella, Sam
Sheridan, and Carl Weingarten.
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