Joining the show for today is Eric Berlin, who wrote The Puzzling World of Winston Breen and its two sequels, all of which belong to the small group of puzzle-themed middle-grade books that Arthur had devoured as a child. On top of that, Eric creates puzzles for a living, having whipped up crosswords and variety puzzles for the New York Times, concocted entire puzzle hunts, and launched the puzzle subscription website Puzzlesnacks. Tune into this conversation if you want to hear him chat with Arthur about the similarities between writing books and creating puzzle hunts, the unnecessary sanitization of antiheroes, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and more.

Note: due to scheduling snafus, 2CC won't be uploading review episodes for the next couple weeks. But don't worry, because the podcast agenda will revert to normal on the week of the 27th.

Eric’s website: https://www.ericberlin.com/

Puzzlesnacks website: https://puzzlesnacks.com

Eric’s Twitter: @puzzlereric

Good Word: the Parker novels (particularly Flashfire) by Donald Westlake under his pseudonym of Richard Stark

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