The Indy Reads, an Indianapolis-based literacy organization, has compiled an anthology called the Indy Writes Book.
According to the press release, M. Travis DiNicola and Zach Roth served as the editors for this project. All of the pieces were created by local authors; one of the writers who became involved with this project is John Green.
The full list of contributors include John David Anderson, Victoria Barrett, Frank Bill, Ray Boomhower, Mary Susan Buhner, Lorene Burkhart, Michael Dahlie, Cathy Day, Carol Faenzi, Terence Faherty, John Green, Lou Harry, Liza Hyatt, Angela Jackson-Brown, Lyn Jones, Jeff Knurek & David Hoyt, Karen Kovacik, Norbert Krapf, Bonnie Maurer, Susan Neville, Will Shortz, Barb Shoup, Amy Sorrells, Gordon Strain & Dianne Moneypenny, Larry Sweazy, Dan Wakefield, and Ben Winters. All of the proceeds generated from book sales will go on to benefit the Indy Reads’ adult literacy programs in Central Indiana.
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Michelle goes on-site with former Oxford intern Caleb Madison, the youngest person to publish a crossword puzzle in the New York Times (at the age of 15). A puzzle by his class at Sundays at JASA: A Program of Sunday Activities for Older Adults was recently published in the New York Times and featured on the Wordplay blog.
Lauren gets a private tour of the OED museum in Oxford with Archivist Martin Maw.
This slideshow features the crossword class in action, and some impressively old printing relics.
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Rock bands
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Rock stars
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How would you clue that?
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The roof, the roof
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Catching up after class
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Caleb Madison with
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his student Carmel Kuperman
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Novelist Howard Jacobson (pictured, far left) won the Man Booker Prize earlier this week. But before he won the prestigious award, he played ping pong.
In November, It Books will publish Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes our World by Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz. The ping pong history contains a short piece by the new Booker Prize winner, along with other writers like Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, and Will Shortz.
Here’s more from the publisher: “Congratulations to Howard Jacobson. Booker Prize Winner. And contributor to our humble book (forthcoming November 2) for which he wrote a magnificent rumination on Table Tennis, The Life Pursuit. Here he is with two more of our heroes, Jerome Charyn and Steven Berkoff. Do yourself a favor and purchase his Ping Pong novel, Mighty Walzer without delay.”
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