The Iliad’ includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
Though ‘Fat City’ was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
It’s not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
I know that some of the finest writing I’ve ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they’re reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
I’d always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don’t screech and holler. They don’t use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
I’m like every waitress in every diner; I’m like every mom driving her kids to school. I’m nothing special at all. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
