Alex J. Mann
How Boxing Taught Me to Survive
I started boxing as an over-privileged, over-parented Jewish kid from the Philly suburbs, but I found something real inside the ring.
The Mob Delusion: A Life According to 'Goodfellas'
I spent my high school years working at an Italian market that I thought was something out of "Goodfellas." And then I realized the mob life was never really for me.
My Childhood in the Shadow of Foxcatcher Farm
John du Pont's murder of Dave Schultz was the first time I grappled with evil, and in some ways, the end of my childhood.