Carlo Rotella
Auteur van Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
Over de Auteur
Carlo Rotella is director of the American studies program at Boston College. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, and he has been a regular op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe and radio commentator for WGBH. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Believer, Washington Post toon meer Magazine, and Best American Essays. His books include Playing in Time, The Bittersweet Science, and Cut Time. toon minder
Fotografie: Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Werken van Carlo Rotella
Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (2002) 25 exemplaren
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (Chicago Visions and… (2019) 16 exemplaren
The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside (2017) 13 exemplaren
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1964-08-24
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Whiting Writers' Award (2007)
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Besprekingen
Lijsten
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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- Werken
- 6
- Ook door
- 5
- Leden
- 122
- Populariteit
- #163,289
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 17
Carlo Rotella, an award-winning writer and ringside veteran, unearths the hidden wisdom in anykind of fight, from barroom dustup to HBO extravaganza. He vividly describes the tough choices and subtle pleasures that come the way of every fighter, from perennial undergogs to Larry Holms, the all-time great who still spars to retching exhaustion at the age of fifty.
Tracing the consequences of hurt and craft, the two central facts of boxing, Rotella achieves moving resonances between the worlds inside and outside the ropes. The brief, disastrous fistic career of a college student pinponts the moment when adulthood arrives. The hard-won insight of a fellow fan shows Rotella how to reckon with a car crash. The persistence of a wizened ex-champion gives him the key to undestanding and honoring his grandmother.
Througout, he tackles fascinating questions that have gone largely unexplored until now: What lessons do boxers and other fight people take away from their brutally punishing sport? And why do they come back for more, again and again? As Rotella traces his immersion in the fight world, he achieves what few other writers have: he makes it relevant to us, whether we're fans or not.
Carlo Rotella's writing has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine. DoubleTake, Harper's Magazine, and The American Scholar, which named one of his boxing pieces its Best Essay of theYear. HIs work has also been published in The Best American Essays. He teaches English at Boston College.
'This is a superb book about the nobel squalor of the world of prizefighting. Carlo Rotella has given us an account that is acutely observed and elegantly written, charged on every page with intelligence, pity, surprise,and yes, a kind of wisdom.'-Pete Hamill, author of Drinking: A Life and Forever
'Carlo Rotella writes with his mind, his heart, and his gut. The result is prose that leaves you breathless. As one of his boxers says about another, 'He can hit.''-Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down and Ex Libris
'Rotella knows that for this to be a book about more than boxing, it must first be a keen, solid account of his time spent at ringside. That's admirably accomplished, and in the process he has written one of the shrewdest, least egocentric, most engaging memoirs about acquiring an education that I've read.'-Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods
Contents
Inroduction: At ringside
1 Halfway
2 Cut time
3 Mismatches
4 An appetite for hitting
5 Out of order
6 The switch
7 The distance
8 Bidness
9 Hurt
Acknowledgments… (meer)