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May 3: Varsity Letters at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan
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 (interview here) provides a behind-the-scenes look at competitive dog shows. Hyman (interview here) explores the problematically expensive side of youth sports. And Wasowski (interview here) explains why it's OK for everyone, even intellectuals and artists, to like sports.
Please spread the word to sports fans and book lovers.
Event Details:
The Gallery at LPR (Official site, map)
158 Bleecker St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)
New York, NY 10012
Blocks from A/C/E/B/D/F/M/N/R/1/6 trains
Doors open at 7.
Event starts at 7:30.
There is no admission charge.
Attendees must be 21 or older, as per Le Poisson Rouge rules. (Email michael@gelfmagazine.com if you are under 21 and would like to attend. The farther in advance, the better; no guarantees.)
More on this month's authors:
•Josh Dean, author of Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
•Mark Hyman, author of The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families
(and a previous Varsity Letters guest)
•Matt Wasowski, host of New York City's Nerd Nite and author of It's Okay To Like Sports: How Women, Intellectuals, and Artists Can Find Cultural Value in Athletics
Upcoming Varsity Letters (also at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan)
June 7
•Authors TBA
Email list
Enter your info below to join the Varsity Letters email list. You'll receive two emails before each event so you can make sure not to miss any sports wisdom. You can unsubscribe at any time.
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 (read her interview with Gelf here), Samhita Mukhopadhyay of Feministing.com (interview here), and Emma Carmichael of Gawker (interview here), 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.
Event Details:
The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge (Official site, map)
158 Bleecker St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)
New York, NY 10012
Blocks from A/C/E/B/D/F/M/N/R/1/6 trains
Doors open at 7:00.
Event starts at 7:30.
There is no admission charge.
Attendees must be 21 or older, as per Le Poisson Rouge rules. (Email michael@gelfmagazine.com if you are under 21 and would like to attend. The farther in advance, the better; no guarantees.)
Email list
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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 (interview here) will revisit the sport's longest game, a 33-inning saga . Steven Goldman and Jay Jaffe (interview here) 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 (interview here) flashes back a century, to Fenway Park's remarkable first year .
Please spread the word to sports fans and book lovers.
Event Details:
The Gallery at LPR (Official site, map)
158 Bleecker St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)
New York, NY 10012
Blocks from A/C/E/B/D/F/M/N/R/1/6 trains
Doors open at 7.
Event starts at 7:30.
There is no admission charge.
Attendees must be 21 or older, as per Le Poisson Rouge rules. (Email michael@gelfmagazine.com if you are under 21 and would like to attend. The farther in advance, the better; no guarantees.)
More on this month's authors:
•New York Times columnist Dan Barry, author of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
•Steven Goldman and Jay Jaffe, editor and co-author, respectively, of Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
•Glenn Stout, author of the Seymour Medal-winning Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year; and editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991.
Upcoming Varsity Letters (also at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan)
May 3
•Josh Dean, author of Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
•Mark Hyman, author of The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families and a previous Varsity Letters guest
•Another author TBA
Email list
Enter your info below to join the Varsity Letters email list. You'll receive two emails before each event so you can make sure not to miss any sports wisdom. You can unsubscribe at any time.
March 15: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns on Thursday, March 15 in Manhattan to dissect the modern memoir.
Weighing in on the problems of the rich and (mostly) famous—and why we care to know so much about them—will be Marc Dolan, professor of English and American Studies at John Jay College and author of the forthcoming biography Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock n Roll; Peter Joseph, editor at Thomas Dunne Books who has worked on autobiographies by William Shatner and Steve Guttenberg; and Mark Sam Rosenthal, Comedy Central writer and creator of off-off-Broadway show I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography.
Event Details:
The Gallery at LPR (Official site, map)
158 Bleecker St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)
New York, NY 10012
Blocks from A/C/E/B/D/F/M/N/R/1/6 trains
Doors open at 7.
Event starts at 7:30.
FREE!
Attendees must be 21 or older, as per Le Poisson Rouge rules. (Email adamr@gelfmagazine.com if you are under 21 and would like to attend. The farther in advance, the better; no guarantees.)
Questions? Suggestions for future events? Email adamr@gelfmagazine.com.
Email list
Enter your info below to join the Non-Motivational Speaker Series email list. You'll receive two emails before each event so you can make sure not to miss any of our fair-traded, locally-harvested morsels of brain candy. You can unsubscribe at any time.
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 winner Ira Berkow (interview here) and literary agent Andrew Blauner (who has represented many Varsity Letters authors) will read selections from and discuss the Blauner-edited collection Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference . Also, Scott Pitoniak (interview here), author of Color Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story ; and ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski (interview here), 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.
Please spread the word to sports fans and book lovers.
Event Details:
The Gallery at LPR (Official site, map)
158 Bleecker St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)
New York, NY 10012
Blocks from A/C/E/B/D/F/M/N/R/1/6 trains
Doors open at 7.
Event starts at 7:30.
There is no admission charge.
Attendees must be 21 or older, as per Le Poisson Rouge rules. (Email michael@gelfmagazine.com if you are under 21 and would like to attend. The farther in advance, the better; no guarantees.)
Upcoming Varsity Letters (also at The Gallery at LPR in Manhattan)
April 5: Opening Day—Baseball Night
•New York Times columnist Dan Barry, author of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
•Glenn Stout, author of the Seymour Medal-winning Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year; and editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991.
•Another author TBA
May 3
•Josh Dean, author of Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
•Mark Hyman, author of
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