Directed by a succession of evil-genius editors (including Will Shortz, reigning since 1993), the crossword page of the Sunday New York Times has attracted writers of innovative and witty puzzles since 1942. This sturdy and functional calendar will help keep your year organized while ensuring that every week and crossword included--there are fifty-three of each--proves supremely puzzling. Also included are teh puzzle answers, double-page 2010 and 2011 yearly grids, a page for notes, a list of international holidays, and a personal information page.
With their colorful, up-to-date vocabulary and witty, cultured clues, The New York Times crossword puzzles set the standard for american crosswords. Edited by puzzlemaster extraordinaire Will Shortz, this calendar's 313 New York Times puzzles become increasingly difficult as the week progresses. Monday is relatively straightforward; by Saturday, the puzzle is so challenging we give you two days to solve it (each Saturday and Sunday share a page and a puzzle). Also included are the puzzle answers, yearly grids for 2010 and 2011, and pages for notes.
A book can stop time, transcend circumstances, conjure a world in which to lose oneself. These paintings achieve the same thing. Just as the reading woman has temporarily set herself free from her life's narrative, so can we leave ours as we contemplate her image. Well-chose words on the pleasures of literature, from historic and contemporary readers and writers, accompany each of the twelve paintings in this calendar. Artists represented are Henry Bacon, John George Brown, Mary Stevenson Cassett, Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, Lilliam Westcott Hale, Edward Wilbur Dean Hamilton, Laura Coombs Hills, William Morris Hunt, Eastman Johnson, Alice Ruggles Sohier, Edmund Charles Tarbell and Micah Williams.