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Author: Dean Olsher
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Scribner
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.181kg
ISBN: 9780743287630
ISBN 10: 0743287630
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 10 September 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Dean Olsher has written a great book that everyone will love, not just crossword people. -- Isaac Mizrahi If Dean Olsher wrote a book on the history of plumbing supplies, I would snap it up. He whips the subject in a blender of love, curiosity, elation, mystery, humor, and obsession (plenty of that). Plus, you learn a lot of odd and interesting facts about crossword puzzles -- and human beings. -- Maira Kalman, author of The Principles of Uncertainty Dean Olsher is the Robert Pirsig of crossword puzzles. -- Jon Delfin, seven-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion This is my kind of book. If you like words, and wordplay, and the oddities of the imagination, and the company of an engaging and witty narrator, then it is your kind of book, too. -- Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap and The Wife From Square One takes the reader into stranger and more illuminating corners of the world glimpsed in Wordplay . Dean Olsher shows the wide-ranging and nimble mind you'd expect of someone who loves crosswords. -- Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing
""""From Square One"" takes the reader into stranger and more illuminating corners of the world glimpsed in ""Wordplay"". Dean Olsher shows the wide-ranging and nimble mind you'd expect of someone who loves crosswords."" -- Stewart O'Nan, author of ""Last Night at the Lobster"" and ""Songs for the Missing"" ""Dean Olsher has written a great book that everyone will love, not just crossword people."" -- Isaac Mizrahi ""Dean Olsher is the Robert Pirsig of crossword puzzles."" -- Jon Delfin, seven-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion ""If Dean Olsher wrote a book on the history of plumbing supplies, I would snap it up. He whips the subject in a blender of love, curiosity, elation, mystery, humor, and obsession (plenty of that). Plus, you learn a lot of odd and interesting facts about crossword puzzles -- and human beings."" -- Maira Kalman, author of ""The Principles of Uncertainty"" ""This is my kind of book. If you like words, and wordplay, and the oddities of the imagination, and the company of an engaging and witty narrator, then it is your kind of book, too."" -- Meg Wolitzer, author of ""The Ten-Year Nap"" and ""The Wife""
From Square One takes the reader into stranger and more illuminating corners of the world glimpsed in Wordplay . Dean Olsher shows the wide-ranging and nimble mind you'd expect of someone who loves crosswords. -- Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing
From Square One takes the reader into stranger and more illuminating corners of the world glimpsed in Wordplay . Dean Olsher shows the wide-ranging and nimble mind you'd expect of someone who loves crosswords. -- Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing Dean Olsher has written a great book that everyone will love, not just crossword people. -- Isaac Mizrahi Dean Olsher is the Robert Pirsig of crossword puzzles. -- Jon Delfin, seven-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion If Dean Olsher wrote a book on the history of plumbing supplies, I would snap it up. He whips the subject in a blender of love, curiosity, elation, mystery, humor, and obsession (plenty of that). Plus, you learn a lot of odd and interesting facts about crossword puzzles -- and human beings. -- Maira Kalman, author of The Principles of Uncertainty This is my kind of book. If you like words, and wordplay, and the oddities of the imagination, and the company of an engaging and witty narrator, then it is your kind of book, too. -- Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap and The Wife
Author Information
Dean Olsher has been a broadcaster for more than thirty years, most of which he has spent in public radio. He was an arts and culture correspondent for NPR News as well as the creator and host of The Next Big Thing, a popular national show. Olsher is currently a visiting professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
