Pics of the Week, 8/29

The Bookbinders Guild's Paul Stanley, co-organizer of the 13th Annual Softball Game for Literacy held in Central Park, stands alongside Karen Proctor, board chair of the Literacy Assistance Center, at last weekend's game. This year's game raised nearly $17,000 for local literacy efforts and has raised more than $270,000 for literacy over its 13 years.

Paul Stanley (I.) and Michael Weinstein (c.), co-organizers of the annual softball game for literacy, and Knopf's Avery Fluck hand out raffle prizes at the Bookbinders Guild's 13th Annual Softball Game for Literacy in Central Park last weekend.

Vivan Garcia (l.) of Prentice Hall receives her raffle prize from Paul Stanley at this year's Bookbinders Guild Softball Game for Literacy last weekend in Central Park.

Hot young comics artist Aaron Renier was in New York City this past weekend signing copies of his new graphic novel, Spiral Bound (Top Shelf), at the new Giant Robot store in the East Village.

On hand for the 2005 University of Minnesota Duluth Writers Workshop are (l. to r.) novelist Robert Olen Butler, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, nonfiction writer Patricia Weaver Francisco and Joe Maiolo, workshop coordinator.