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February 2: Varsity Letters at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan
February 20: Geeking Out on Geeky Garbage at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan
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.
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, 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.
While the Fountain of Youth has, to our knowledge, not been discovered, man has long tried to imagine a world without death and aging—a quest that has taken in authors and scientists alike. Join Gelf at Pacific Standard in Brooklyn on November 17 for an evening with a writer who has imagined a postmortal universe and two researchers who are, if not unlocking the secret to eternal life, at least trying to make aging less unpleasant (and curing some nasty diseases along the way). Our three speakers will Drew Magary, a Varsity Letters alum, Deadspin contributor and author of The Postmortal; Aubrey de Grey, a gerontologist and chief science officer of the SENS Foundation, a group that works to promote 'rejuvenation biotechnologies' that could combat aging-related illnesses and, perhaps, aging itself; and Jan Viig, chair of the genetics department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an expert on the human genome's relationship to aging and death.
Kanye West once (almost) said, "They say you can blog about anything except for Jesus." He may have been talking about mainstream radio, but the same can be said about the online media conversation. Politics, sex, abortion, and all the usual third rails of polite conversation aren't just discussed, they're catalysts for some of the fiercest and most active debates across the blogosphere. But what about religious issues? Are they part of the online discussion? Or are they ghettoized into religion-centric "god-blogs" and their atheist equivalents? Media Circus returns on November 7th with three diverse speakers—Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine; noted philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, a professor at the City University of New York and editor of the secular humanist blog Rationally Speaking; and Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, Senior Religion Editor at the Huffington Post—will address these issues and others pertaining to religion's place in online media in a discussion moderated by New York Times religion correspondent Laurie Goodstein at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan at 7:00 PM.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Stefan Fatsis, John Krewson, and Jeff Pearlman will read from and talk about their work. Fatsis's classic account of the competitive Scrabble world is now a 10th-anniversary edition. Krewson is sports editor of The Onion and co-editor of the satirical newspaper's new collection of its almost-ripped-from-the-sports-pages coverage. And Pearlman is the author of a new, complex, controversial biography of Walter Payton.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns with an all-tennis night on Thursday, October 6, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Marshall Jon Fisher, S.L. Price, and Tom Perrotta will read from and talk about their work. Fisher chronicled one of the greatest matches ever played—between a German baron and laconic American as Nazism was on the ascent—and the intricate, rich social and political history surrounding it. Price has written dozens of tennis features for Sports Illustrated, including a recent one tracing the rise of Novak Djokovic. And Perrotta is a veteran tennis writer who has covered tournaments around the world and collaborated with the sport's top instructors. Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim, a Varsity Letters veteran and longtime tennis writer, will moderate a tennis discussion with the evening's guests.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, September 1, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Matt Long, Charlie Butler, and Ernie Palladino will read from and talk about their work. Greenburg is Jay-Z's biographer, and covered the hip-hop mogul's role in bringing the Nets to Brooklyn. Long and Butler are co-authors of a book tracing Long's comeback from severe injury to finish a marathon against the odds. And Palladino will explain how Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi became NFL coaching legends.
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