Squawkin' Sports! (DSK)

OFFSITE-EVENT: DSK
Squawkin’ Sports!
Thursday, September 26, 7:00 PM
Hosted by Patrick Sauer & David J. Roth
Featuring Michael Waters and Frank Andre Guridy
Tickets: $10, $45, & $80
Created and hosted by writers Patrick Sauer and David J. Roth, Squawkin’ Sports is an ongoing series featuring book chats with grown-up authors writing about grown-ups playing kiddie games. This month, Squawkin' Sports is hosting a special in-person event at Die Stammkneipe Brooklyn (710 Fulton St.). Sauer and Roth chat with Michael Waters, author of The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, and Frank Andre Guridy, author of The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play.

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature, The Other Olympians tells the gripping true stories of Zdeněk Koubek, Mark Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes who lit the flame for today’s culture wars. With dogged research and cinematic flair, Waters also tracks how International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany’s atrocities in order to pull off the Berlin Games. Immersive and revelatory, The Other Olympians is a groundbreaking, hidden-in-the-archives marvel, an inspiring call for equality, and an essential contribution toward understanding the contemporary culture wars over gender in sports.
Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, they have also functioned as public squares. In The Stadium, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, Guridy recovers the hidden history of the stadium and its important role in the struggle for justice in America.
Ticket options:
$10: 1 drink
$45: 1 drink + 1 The Other Olympians
$45: 1 drink + 1 The Stadium
$80: 1 drink + 1 Copy of Both Books

Host or Publisher Greenlight Bookstore