If You're In New York Tonight, Come Hear Some Good Writers Talk About Football
This month's edition of Gelf's Varsity Letters reading series is tonight at Pacific Standard on Fourth Ave in Brooklyn at 7:30. Kevin Cook, author of The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s—The Era that Created Modern Sports will be there, so will Peter Schrager, co-author of Victor Cruz's autobiography, and Joe Drape, who wrote Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point. You should totally go.
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