Thursday, April 10 is baseball night at Varsity Letters at The Gallery at LPR. Grantland’s Jonah Keri, will read from his new book Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos. He’ll be joined by Kostya […]
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Gelf’s Varsity Letters, New York’s sports reading series, returns on Thursday, Oct. 4, with a night devoted to players who won’t make it to Cooperstown unless they buy a bus ticket. 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 […]
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Gelf’s Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, Jan. 5, at 7:30 p.m., to Manhattan’s The Gallery at LPR. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, George Vecsey, Mark Ribowsky, and Dave Zirin will read from and talk about their work. Vecsey, who recently ended his 30-year stint as a New York Times […]
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GelfMagazine.com — motto: “Looking over the overlooked” — has always been berry berry good to baseball. In recent issues, they’ve done interviews with authors Tim Wendell (Castro’s Curveball, Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America), Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney (It Take More Than Balls: The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball), […]
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