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Howard Jacobson: From Ping Pong Player To Booker Winner

First Posted: 10/14/10 04:44 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:00 PM ET

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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.

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