Leonard Gardner & Eddie Muller in Conversation on 'Fat City'

'Fat City' is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. When two men meet in the ring, the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger, their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Munger into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. “The tale blends the perspective on them until they seem to chart a single life of missteps and baffled love, Ernie its youth and Tully its future. I wanted to write a book like that.”—Denis Johnson, from the introduction

Join New York Review Books for an evening with Leonard Gardner, author of 'Fat City,' and Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir” and Executive Director of the Noir City Foundation, as they discuss 'Fat City' in celebration of its re-release by New York Review Books.