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March 4, 2008

Gelf's Varsity Letters: 3/6 Interviews

The sportswriters featured on Gelf's front page will be speaking spoke at a free Gelf event in New York on Thursday, March 6, at 8 p.m. Come by Thanks for coming by the Happy Ending Lounge to hear Andy Mendlowitz, Spike Vrusho, and members of the New York Daily News sports investigative team read from and discuss their writing.

Gelf is featuring interviews with the writers. Click on each name for the interview:

Andy Mendlowitz, author of Ireland's Professional Amateurs: A Sports Season At Its Purest

Spike Vrusho, author of Benchclearing: Baseball's Greatest Fights and Riots

New York Daily News sports investigative team (two members were co-authors of The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card and appeared at an earlier Varsity Letters event)

Here are photos of the night, courtesy Keith Huang.

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

April 3: An all-baseball lineup: Stefan Fatsis, contributor to Anatomy of Baseball; Jonathan Mayo, author of Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher; and Cait Murphy, author of Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History.

Also, March 27 marks the debut of another Gelf Magazine monthly event at Happy Ending: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series, to be hosted by Adam Rosen. The series will present views alternative and overlooked on subjects that define our curiously postmodern life. A different theme will be tackled each month: comedy, the anti-organic movement, and blogging are some of the delectable pieces of brain candy ready to be plucked from the goody bag of topics. Like Varsity Letters, every event will feature three speakers, each invited for his or her unique position of authority.

Comedy will be the topic on March 27. Featured speakers are stand-up comic Kumail Nanjiani, recipient of "The Best Comedian Award" at the 2007 Chicago Comedy Awards, former opener for Zach Galifianakis, and member of the popular comedy troupe BLERDs; Patrice Evans—aka The Assimilated Negro (T.A.N.)—a New York-based writer, blogger, and producer who has contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Gawker, Time Out New York, the Huffington Post, EbonyJet, Penthouse, and Deadspin, and blogs at TheAssimilatedNegro.com; and Todd Hanson, longtime Onion writer and editor and co-author of Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition. The event will start at 8 p.m. at the Happy Ending Lounge, and is free.







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