Is It a Boxing Metaphor?

Sally Kohn: I have vivid memories of sitting in a small seminar with you and talking about our work. She says she was impressed by your attention to detail when commenting on famous works like Hemingway's "Moby-Dick" You were pushing the student to think harder about whether that scene was described as, as crisply and accurately as it could be, she says.Kohn: We take up 30 pages or less usually at each workshop and really examine it as if we were editors,. Let's say at the New Yorker. So how can this short story be even better? That's how I look at the text.