David Gionfriddo
The CBZ Reviews One Ring Circus by K. Dunne
by Mike DeLisa on Apr.29, 2009, under David Gionfriddo, Reviews
ONE RING CIRCUS:
Dispatches from the World of Boxing
By Katherine Dunne
Reviewed by:
David Gionfriddo, CBZ Staff Writer
Buy the Book: One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing
A few years back, I had the opportunity to attend an amateur boxing event in a Portland, Oregon school gymnasium with author/journalist/fight fan/friend Katherine Dunn. As an admirer of her imaginative and nuanced fiction, I seized a quiet moment between fights to pose the ultimate sophisto-smartass query: How did some one who excelled in the delicate art of storytelling reconcile her love of boxing with the violence inflicted on its participants?
