Pound for Pound by FX Toole, reviewed for Ellroy Reads

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads, I discuss FX Toole’s classic boxing novel Pound for Pound. FX Toole (pseudonym of Jerry Boyd) is one of the most enigmatic figures in modern literature. I talk a little about his life-story, at least what we can definitively say of it, and his career in boxing.

I also discuss Toole’s one meeting with James Ellroy,m which occurred just as Toole’s writing career was taking off, before it would be tragically cut short by Toole’s death from heart disease. Pound for Pound was published posthumously and is considered one of the greatest novels about boxing. Ellroy has a profound love of the sport and I share some boxing stories from his life.

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