A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I'd always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
I'd always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
