The three sportswriters featured on the front page will be speaking spoke at a free Gelf event in New York on Thursday, December 6, at 8 p.m. Come by Thanks for coming by the Happy Ending Lounge to hear writers Stewart Mandel, Wright Thompson, and Todd Gallagher read from and discuss their writing. (UPDATE: Aaron Schatz is ill and won't be able to attend.)
Gelf is featuring interviews with the writers. Click on each author's name for the interview:
Stewart Mandel, author of Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football
ESPN.com columnist Wright Thompson
Todd Gallagher, author of Andy Roddick Beat Me with a Frying Pan: Taking the Field with Pro Athletes and Olympic Legends to Answer Sports Fans' Burning Questions
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.
Varsity Letters is on MySpace.
Upcoming events
January 3: Will Leitch, author of God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back)
February 7: Ira Berkow of the New York Times, author of Red: A Biography of Red Smith
Robert Creamer, author of Babe: The Legend Comes to Life Cecil Harris, author of Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters
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