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Varsity Letters
April 3, 2012
April 5: Varsity Letters Welcomes Back Baseball
Enjoy opening day, then come to Varsity Letters baseball night on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, four writers of recent baseball books will read from and talk about their work. New York Times columnist Dan Barry will revisit the sport's longest game, a 33-inning saga. Steven Goldman and Jay Jaffe are on the cutting edge of baseball stats, as editor and co-author, respectively, of Baseball Prospectus's new book on the crucial numbers behind the national pastime. And Glenn Stout flashes back a century, to Fenway Park's remarkable first year.
Non-Motivational
March 13, 2012
March 15: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns
The celeb memoir: butter on the publishing world's triscuit, or somber literary catharsis? On Thursday, March 15 in New York, join CUNY Professor and Bruce Springsteen biographer Marc Dolan, Thomas Dunne Books editor Peter Joseph (steward of Steve Guttenberg's forthcoming autobiography, The Guttenberg Bible), and Mark Sam Rosenthal, star/writer/producer of off-off-Broadway production I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography, for a fun night of pathos and self-reflection.
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Varsity Letters
February 28, 2012
March 1: Varsity Letters March Madness
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR, with a night devoted to college basketball and coaching. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Ira Berkow and literary agent Andrew Blauner will read selections from and discuss the collection Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference. Also, Scott Pitoniak, author of Color Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story; and ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski, author of The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball, will read from and talk about their work.
Geeking Out
February 20, 2012
February 20: Geeky Garbage
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.
Varsity Letters
January 30, 2012
February 2: Varsity Letters With Dave McKenna, Dan Steinberg
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.
Varsity Letters
December 25, 2011
January 5: Varsity Letters
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.
Varsity Letters
November 20, 2011
December 1: All-NBA Varsity Letters
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.
Geeking Out
November 11, 2011
November 17: Geeking Out on The Death Gene
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.
Media Circus
November 7, 2011
November 7th: Media Circus on 'God-blogging'
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.
Varsity Letters
October 26, 2011
November 3: Varsity Letters
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.
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