Sometimes, somehow, someone gets it right. The reissue of “Fat City,” Leonard Gardner’s pitch-perfect account of boxing, blue-collar bewilderment and the battle of the sexes, is cause for celebration, ...

If there’s a question Leonard Gardner hates more than, “Why did you only write one novel?” it’s “Why has ‘Fat City’ endured for more than 40 years?” He circles around the question of another novel in ...

Leonard Gardner’s 1969 novel “Fat City” — set in the down-and-out boxing world of Stockton — has achieved cult status, if not in society at large, then in literary circles. So much so that when the ...