Faux Play
Killer Kindle vs The Paper Palooka
Billed as the book fight of the century
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13 min readNov 13, 2023
Setting: Madison Square Garden, early in the year 2020. A veil of smoke swirls down to just above the heads of the fans. In the center of the crowd, a raised platform bears the sixteen-by-twenty roped ring. A rolling murmur pervades the auditorium and is occasionally punctuated by cheers as one or…