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Varsity Letters
November 27, 2012
November 29 Varsity Letters: Michael Vick, Harvard Football, Lance Armstrong
Gelf's Varsity Letters, New York's sports reading series, returns from our Sandy-induced hiatus on November 29 with readings about Michael Vick's prison term, the disturbing motivational techniques of a Harvard football coach, and Lance Armstrong's rides and fall. Seth Wickersham, writer for ESPN The Magazine and twice previously a Varsity Letters speaker, will read from and talk about pieces on former Atlanta quarterback Vick and on current Atlanta QB Matt Ryan. Writer Eric Kester will read from his memoir, That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time, which includes his experience on the Harvard football team. And Varsity Letters alumnus Bill Strickland—the veteran cycling journalist and author of Ten Points—will discuss the recent doping revelations about Lance Armstrong, subject of Strickland's book, Tour de Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Cycling's Most Controversial Champion.
Varsity Letters
September 27, 2012
October 4 Varsity Letters: Baseball's Hall of Nearly Great
Gelf's Varsity Letters, New York's sports reading series, returns on October 4 with a night devoted to players who won't make it to Cooperstown unless they buy a bus ticket. And yet their Major League Baseball careers are, in their own way, more colorful and eventful than those of many Hall of Famers. They get their due in the new digital collection of essays, The Hall of Nearly Great. And they'll get their due at Varsity Letters, featuring editor Marc Normandin, who also wrote the essays on Ray Lankford and Bret Saberhagen. Also appearing: Previous Varsity Letters speakers Will Leitch and Emma Span, who wrote about Darrell Porter and Lenny Dykstra, respectively, and who both also contribute to the new sports website Sports on Earth. They'll be joined by occasional Gelf contributors David Roth, who is an editor of the Classical and wrote about Keith Hernandez; and Craig Fehrman, who contributes to Deadspin and wrote about Eric Davis.
Varsity Letters
August 22, 2012
September 6 Varsity Letters: Football Night NEW VENUE
Gelf goes to the gridiron when Varsity Letters, New York's sports reading series, returns on September 6, to Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, with a night devoted to all things football. Kevin Cook, author of The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s—The Era that Created Modern Sports; Peter Schrager, who co-wrote New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz's autobiography Out of the Blue; and Joe Drape, a Varsity Letters alum and author of Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point; will read from and discuss their work.
Non-Motivational
August 16, 2012
August 16: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns
Everyone and their nightly news anchor knows Brooklyn is a modern-day Shangri-La. But are there drawbacks to $8 espresso pours? And can there ever be too many 80s dance parties? We're not sure, but for this Non-Motivational Speaker Series we've enlisted the help of comedians and Brooklyn-based web series creators Rob Michael Hugel (I Hate Being Single) and Sue Smith and Eric Silver (Brokelandia) to find out. Clips will be shown at the event.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Geeking Out
August 3, 2012
August 8, Geeking Out: Mind Tricks
Join Gelf at The Gallery at LPR on Wednesday, August 8 for an evening devoted to the study of tricking the mind—and a magic show! Alex Stone, author of Fooling Houdini, will discuss his book about NYC's magician subculture and the theoretical and cognitive underpinnings of illusion, and perform a magic show. Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist at NYU and expert on intelligence and creativity, will discuss unconscious intelligence and what we don’t know about what happens in our minds.
Varsity Letters
July 22, 2012
August 2 Varsity Letters: Boxing & Soccer
Gelf's Varsity Letters, New York's sports reading series, returns on August 2 with a night devoted to two sports that will be in the limelight at the London Olympics: boxing and soccer. Former Washington Post sportswriter William Gildea, who has covered about 50 major fights, tells the story of boxing's first African-American champion. Theresa Runstedtler, a former professional dancer and actress who is now a scholar of American studies, has the tale of the sport's first African-American heavyweight champ, who once was the most famous black man on the planet. And GQ's Mark Kirby will discuss his plans to help launch a US soccer magazine featuring some of the sport's most notable writers.
Varsity Letters
June 29, 2012
July 5 Varsity Letters: 2012 Olympics in New York
So New York didn't win the 2012 Olympics. But it beat out London for the rights to host Gelf's Olympics-themed Varsity Letters event, where three writers of recent books on great moments in Olympic history will read from and talk about their work. Kate Buford is the author of Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe. David Davis is the author of Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze. And Jack McCallum, who appeared at Varsity Letters once before, is the author of the forthcoming Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever.
Varsity Letters
June 6, 2012
June 21 Varsity Letters: Damn Yankees -- NEW VENUE
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, June 21, at 7:30 pm, at The Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, with a look at the most respected and detested organization in sports. Rob Fleder will be discussing the book Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team, which he edited, along with Alex Belth of the blog Bronx Banter, and other writers who have something to say about the men in pinstripes.
Varsity Letters
May 1, 2012
May 3: Varsity Letters Featuring Show Dogs, Youth Athletics, and Loving Sports
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.
Media Circus
April 16, 2012
Media Circus, April 19: Girl Talk
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.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
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