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A. J. Jacobs Puzzles It Out
A. J. Jacobs, journalist, NPR contributor, and the author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks a Thousand, It's All Relative and his latest The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life (Crown, 2022), talks about his new book that tries to puzzle out why we like puzzles and what they do for us.
→A.J. Jacobs will be at 92nd Street Y tonight in conversation with Will Shortz, the crossword editor at the New York Times, at 7:30. In-person or online ticket info here.
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A. J. Jacobs, journalist, NPR contributor, and the author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks a Thousand, It's All Relative and his latest The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life (Crown, 2022), talks about his new book that tries to puzzle out why we like puzzles and what they do for us.
→A.J. Jacobs will be at 92nd Street Y tonight in conversation with Will Shortz, the crossword editor at the New York Times, at 7:30. In-person or online ticket info here.
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