(W/A/CA) Paolo Bacilieri
In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, “Fun.” A century later, this absorbing puzzle continues to attract (and infuriate) millions of devotees every day. Paolo Bacilieri’s Fun transports us from turn-of-the-century New York to present-day Milan, taking in stories of ingenious puzzle makers, ardent solvers, and intellectual luminaries. Part detective story, part docudrama, and interlaced with a fiction of Bacilieri’s own imagining, Fun questions the crossword’s “harmless” status. Sure, it’s fun — but could it also be a form of resistance, of cryptic communication, of espionage?
HC, 7x10, 144pgs SRP: $24.95

Planowana data premiery: 15.03.2017