David Gionfriddo
The CBZ Reviews One Ring Circus by K. Dunne
by Mike DeLisa on Apr.29, 2009, under David Gionfriddo, Reviews
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?