Tag: AJ Liebling
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#40: ‘A Neutral Corner’ by A.J. Liebling
‘A Neutral Corner’ is a collection of essays by A.J. Liebling. In my opinion this collection is a much more varied and superior collection of essays than Liebling’s celebrated ‘The Sweet Science’. I feel as though Liebling’s greatest skill, as with Budd Schulberg and Djuna Barnes, is as an observer of people, and perhaps the…
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#2: ‘The Sweet Science’ by A.J. Liebling
‘The Sweet Science’ by A. J. Liebling is probably the single most famous book about boxing, possibly due to the way that the internet regurgitates ‘best of’ lists with this title pretty much always present. That being said, it is clearly an important book on the subject. It’s probably worth saying here that I have…
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