Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The King and The Greatest | 2017 | Tom Schreck | Buy |
| 2 | Elvis & Ali: The Summit | 2017 | Tom Schreck | Buy |
Tom Schreck’s interest in boxing has always gone beyond technique and tactics; he is drawn to boxing as a cultural force, something that produced a figure like Muhammad Ali and shaped the mid-twentieth century American imagination. The two plays published in 2017 explore that territory directly, placing Ali alongside Elvis Presley to examine what those two unlikely friends meant to each other and to their era.
The plays are a different kind of project from the Duffy Dombrowski books, but the underlying curiosity about what sport and celebrity do to a person’s inner life is consistent. Readers who have followed Schreck’s fiction will find familiar concerns in a different form.