An overemphasis on youth sports can harm kids, Mark Hyman has found, but it can be a boon for a surprisingly wide range of businesses.
Matt Wasowski is on a quest to defend sport from its critics, though even he has trouble defending the slow pace of baseball, and the Brooklyn Nets.
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May 3: Varsity Letters at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan
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Subscribe to the Gelflog RSS feedGelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR with a look at every corner of the sports world. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Josh Dean, Mark Hyman, and Matt Wasowski will read from and talk about their work. Dean provides a behind-the-scenes look at competitive dog shows. Hyman explores the problematically expensive side of youth sports. And Wasowski explains why it's OK for everyone, even intellectuals and artists, to like sports.
05/01 | Read more »
Clotted patriarchal mastheads got you down? Tired of making 85 cents to a weaker male writer's dollar? Feeling stifled by a media Boy's Club? Gelf Magazine's Media Circus returns to the Gallery at LPR on Thursday, April 19. Join Julieanne Smolinski of XOJane, Samhita Mukhopadhyay of Feministing.com, and Emma Carmichael of Gawker, along with Salon's Irin Carmon, as they discuss some of the internet's burgeoning destinations for female thought, and being the voice of some generation, somewhere.
04/16 | Read more »
Enjoy opening day, then come to Varsity Letters baseball night on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, four writers of recent baseball books will read from and talk about their work. New York Times columnist Dan Barry will revisit the sport's longest game, a 33-inning saga. Steven Goldman and Jay Jaffe are on the cutting edge of baseball stats, as editor and co-author, respectively, of Baseball Prospectus's new book on the crucial numbers behind the national pastime. And Glenn Stout flashes back a century, to Fenway Park's remarkable first year.
04/03 | Read more »
