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May 3: Varsity Letters at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan
Gelf'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.
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.
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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.
The celeb memoir: butter on the publishing world's triscuit, or somber literary catharsis? On Thursday, March 15 in New York, join CUNY Professor and Bruce Springsteen biographer Marc Dolan, Thomas Dunne Books editor Peter Joseph (steward of Steve Guttenberg's forthcoming autobiography, The Guttenberg Bible), and Mark Sam Rosenthal, star/writer/producer of off-off-Broadway production I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography, for a fun night of pathos and self-reflection.
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Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR, with a night devoted to college basketball and coaching. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Ira Berkow and literary agent Andrew Blauner will read selections from and discuss the collection Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference. Also, Scott Pitoniak, author of Color Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story; and ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski, author of The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball, will read from and talk about their work.
If we are what we throw away, then what we throw away is worth a close look. Join Gelf on Monday, February 20, at 7:30 pm at The Gallery at LPR for Geeky Garbage, a look at that most overlooked aspect of the overlooked—civilization's waste. We'll have on hand the New York City sanitation department's resident anthropologist and an expert on some of the city's earliest landfills to talk about what really happens when we throw something in the trash, and how it impacts everyone.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, February 2, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR, as two of the nation's capital's eminent sportswriters take Manhattan. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Dave McKenna and Dan Steinberg will read from and talk about their work. McKenna was, for 26 years, the sports columnist for the Washington City Paper, a stint that ended in December after an eventful final year. And Steinberg writes the DC Sports Bog, a chronicle of the eccentric and enthralling in local sports, for the Washington Post.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, January 5, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Mark Ribowsky, George Vecsey, and Dave Zirin will read from and talk about their work. Ribowsky is the biographer of the legendary broadcaster and provocateur, Howard Cosell. Vecsey, who recently ended his 30-year stint as a New York Times sports columnist, is the biographer of St. Louis Cardinals hero Stan Musial. And Zirin is the co-author, with John Carlos, of a biography of the track-and-field Olympian who sparked controversy with his defiant Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Games.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns with an all-NBA night on Thursday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge. With the lockout ongoing, this will be the only pro hoops in town. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Henry Abbott, Harvey Araton, and Scott Raab will read from and talk about their work. Abbott has been chronicling the lockout tirelessly for ESPN. Araton has revisited the glory days of the Knicks, when Walt Frazier and Willis Reed won titles. And Raab has written a screed against LeBron James, who left his and Raab's native Ohio for sunny Miami.
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