Gerald Early/"I Only Like It Better When the Pain Comes"

Early's prose is very concise and scientific, almost too much so. It becomes incredibly hard to read after a while. It's simply boring. I wanted embellishment and magic. I guess it's preference, though. This is an essay with touches of literary journalism. Hunter S. Thompson does the same thing. But interesting. I like that Early can compare The Incredible Shrinking Man with masculinity and boxing, and I like that he brings up the fact that boxing has Anglo-Saxon origins, despite it being dominated by minorities in the United States.