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Pain And Violence As A Way Of Life: Muhammad Ali-George Chuvalo II Leonard Gardner is the author of one of the finest sports novels ever written, Fat City, a masterpiece of the terse style that is, in the words of Denis Johnson, “so precisely written and giving such value to its words that I felt I could almost read it with my fingers, like Braille.” Gardner also ...

Cool Fat City PosterWe've raved about Fat City here before—Leonard Gardner's novel and John Huston's movie. I ran across the Polish poster for the movie at the dope tumblr site, The Wanderlustr. ...

A Champ Looks At A ChampFrom Leonard Gardner's 1971 New York Times review of the Jose Torres book, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story:...

How A Great Boxing Novel Got The Movie It Deserved

"Sometimes you only get to win one championship."—Leonard Gardner...