Tablet Magazine » Celebrities Cross Paddles http://www.tabletmag.com A New Read on Jewish Life Sun, 19 May 2013 13:26:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/50313/celebrities-cross-paddles?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrities-cross-paddles&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrities-cross-paddles http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/50313/celebrities-cross-paddles#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:00:17 +0000 Dan Klein http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=50313

Losing 11-1 at ping-pong could rattle anyone, but Jonathan Safran Foer (author of Everything is Illuminated) seemed particularly confused Wednesday at Lincoln Center. “I love Cabinet Magazine,” he insisted repeatedly.

Foer was competing in the Tournament of Champions, a celebrity table tennis competition that also featured Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Judah Friedlander, Jeff Staple, Nancy Franklin, and Sloane Crosley all fighting for table tennis honor and to celebrate Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz’s new book Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World.

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Losing 11-1 at ping-pong could rattle anyone, but Jonathan Safran Foer (author of Everything is Illuminated) seemed particularly confused Wednesday at Lincoln Center. “I love Cabinet Magazine,” he insisted repeatedly.

Foer was competing in the Tournament of Champions, a celebrity table tennis competition that also featured Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Judah Friedlander, Jeff Staple, Nancy Franklin, and Sloane Crosley all fighting for table tennis honor and to celebrate Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz’s new book Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World.

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