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Adrienne Raphel’s obsession with words and wordplay started early. “I’ve always been a word game person ever since I was little,” she said in a phone interview. And she was competitive, too. Frustrated that she couldn’t beat her family at Boogle, she took what her family called a “quantum leap” forward with the help of an online version of the game. “I went from having to be handicapped to having to give the rest of my family a handicap in like two because I blitzed my way through Yahoo Boggle,” she said with a laugh. Raphel’s book “Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures wi...

The Pugilist at Rest, but for three or four hours, as I lie on my bedroom floor absorbing the novel from cover to cover, I hardly move, while beneath my skin I seem to possess another self, thinner and freer, made of electricity and air, which sways as I turn the pages. I don’t feel like I’m dancing even when I’m dancing, so it takes a lot to make me feel like I’m dancing when I’m reading. At 22, I have developed the almost ritualistic habit of equating my favorite novels with my favorite albums. Housekeeping, I decide, is Iris DeMent’s

Community Content 2 Dale Ave., Gloucester -- 978-281-9763 -- http://sawyerfreelibrary.org. The Sawyer Free Library is now open for select onsite services, six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and Thursdays from noon to 7 p.m. Visitors should keep visits to 30 minutes or less. The library has implemented extensive preventative measures and controls to keep staff and patrons as safe as possible. All staff and visitors must wear masks, practice physical distancing and all public spaces have limited capacities. Express Public Computer Stations are available first-co...

Of the thousands of short stories that are printed in magazines in this country each year, only a few are worthy of the dignity of being inserted between the hardcovers of a book. The story most worthy this year is one written by Thomas Mabry, resident of Stockbridge, who is currently teaching in the Writers’ Workshop at Iowa State University. Mr. Mabry considers himself only an “occasional writer” but the editors of Doubleday’s “Prize Stories of 1954” chose his short story as most worthy of the $500 “O. Henry Memorial Prize Award.” They selected his pi...

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poet John Berryman spent the first ten years of his life in McAlester Oklahoma.