New York's Varsity Letters sports reading series, the event for erudite sports fans and book lovers, returns on February 7 at 8 p.m.. At this free monthly event at a hip Lower East Side bar, hosted by Gelf's Carl Bialik, Jack Cavanaugh, S.L. Price, and Katie Hnida—featured in interviews on Gelf's front page—will read from their works, talk about them, and take questions.

Jack Cavanaugh will discuss his new biography of Gene Tunney, the brainy boxing champ whose intellect served him well both in and out of the boxing ring; Sports Illustrated's S.L. Price will talk about his book on baseball in Cuba, and his profile of Sportstman of the Year Dwyane Wade; and Katie Hnida, the first female player in major college football, will discuss her new autobiography.

Admission is FREE. Please spread the word to sports fans and book lovers. Event details below.

This month's authors:

Jack Cavanaugh, author of Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey [Amazon]

Katie Hnida, author of Still Kicking: My Dramatic Journey As the First Woman to Play Division One College Football [Amazon]

S.L. Price, author of Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports [Amazon] and dozens of articles for Sports Illustrated, including the article last December naming Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade the magazine's Sportsman of the Year.

Event Details:

Happy Ending Lounge (official site, CitySearch, MySpace)
302 Broome St.
(between Forsyth and Eldridge)
212-334-9676
J/M/Z/F to Delancey
B/D to Grand Street
Look for the hot-pink awning with the words "Health Club" on it.

Doors open at 7:30.
Readings start at 8 sharp.
FREE!

Copies of the books will be available for sale, courtesy Mobile Libris.

Questions? Suggestions for future readings? Email varsityletters@gmail.com

Also, see interviews with the authors from our Jan. 3 reading. And save March 7 on your calendar. Online Writers, Offline: Bloggers Henry Abbott (True Hoop); Jon Bois, Nick Dallamora, and Brandon Stroud (The Dugout); Jason Fry & Greg Prince (Faith and Fear in Flushing); Will Leitch (Deadspin); Dan Shanoff; and Matt Ufford (With Leather). And coming April 4: A baseball-themed Varsity Letters.

Varsity Letters is on MySpace.

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