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Hi, I'm Joel Wapnick, writer of literary fiction. The View North From Liberal Cemetery is my first novel, and it deals with all of the usual suspects: love, death, guilt, memory, and infirmity. Its protagonist is Carl Anderson, an 82-year-old retired professor who believes that life amounts to nothing—until he runs into Shelley Randell, a 26-year-old wiseass librarian with a serious health issue. Please go here for a fuller description.

I am an accomplished Scrabble player, having won the World Championship, the Canadian Championship twice, and the North American Championship. I've written three books on the topic, the most recent of which is How to Play Scrabble Like a Champion.. A description of this book can be found here. ...more

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Competing With Myself at the Piano: Implications for Research and Learning

This paper was presented at the 25th Clifford K. Madsen International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior, Asheville, NC, March 20-23, 2024.

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