Robert Anasi

Biography

Robert Anasi is the author of The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle and has written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Salon, the London Times, and Playboy. He also wrote the introduction to a new edition of A. J. Liebling’s classic The Sweet Science. His new book Golden Man: The Remarkable Quest of Gene Savoy will be published in 2010.

http://robertanasi.blogspot.com/

See Work

ESSAYS / Fall 2009

Game Over

By Robert Anasi ,  Photography by John Ryan Brubaker

“I’m just a piece of trash from the gutter,” Jesse told me with pride. “I was born to be what I am. I come from a family of hustlers. Most people at family reunions. They talk about their kids and who got married and shit. At my family...