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Bill Littlefield, nationally known author and veteran sports commentator, hosted NPR's "Only A Game" for 25 years before retiring in 2018. Find out what Bill has been up to since stepping away from public radio after 35 years! Littlefield will discuss his work with the Emerson Prison Initiative, a program that gives incarcerated people across Massachusetts the opportunity to earn a college degree while behind bars. Littlefield will also explain how COVID-19 has affected the program and the serious threat it poses to inmates and prison staff. 

About Bill: In addition to his radio work with NPR, Bill Littlefield has written seven sports-related books, most recently "Take Me Out," a collection of sports-and-games-related verse. He helped edit “The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W.C. Heinz,” and wrote the introduction for the anthology. A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Bill taught English at Curry College for 39 years and served as writer-in-residence there.

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