lizzymaynes @Lizzymaynes
puzzles & games editor @newyorker // no personal business on company pond Brooklyn, NY Joined January 2011-
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here's the youtube playlist of all the amazing talks by @helvetica, @malisolves, @xor, @faBioethics, @AVCXWord, and an incredible keynote from @Lizzymaynes youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Announcing some changes to the New Yorker's Puzzles & Games lineup—including twice-weekly Mini Crosswords constructed by @kateschmate, @molliecowger, and me. As always, happy solving! 🖤🤍
Announcing some changes to the New Yorker's Puzzles & Games lineup—including twice-weekly Mini Crosswords constructed by @kateschmate, @molliecowger, and me. As always, happy solving! 🖤🤍
Loved this @annashechtman piece on women and crosswords, in which I learned (among other things) there’s a Tracy-Hepburn romcom about library science
Loved this @annashechtman piece on women and crosswords, in which I learned (among other things) there’s a Tracy-Hepburn romcom about library science
thanks to the new yorker cartoons & puzzles issue, i am now able to represent my two moods in life
thanks to the new yorker cartoons & puzzles issue, i am now able to represent my two moods in life https://t.co/rFvqDGjOud
Really happy I got to make today's crossword for the @NewYorker's Therapy Issue. Thanks to everyone who made it possible; hope you like it! newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…
“Life is sweet”: For the @NewYorker interviews issue, I talked to Will Shortz about crosswords, The Simpsons, and finding love at 70. newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
Job alert: come be the new Managing Editor of @PublicBooks! If you're interested in scholarly ideas reaching broad audiences, adept with detail, and want to help shape the future of criticism, apply to manage our very collegial group of academics/editors: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/assoc-dir…
some news i still can't quite believe is real: i have joined the new yorker puzzles & games team as assistant editor!! i am so excited to work with the amazing team there and the lbr terrifyingly good roster of constructors!
.@Lizzymaynes: "Puzzles just pair well with reading the news, and that doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soon." niemanlab.org/2022/08/puzzle…
Announcing more puzzles, more constructors, and a new mascot! Welcome aboard @xandraladee @bewildering_ly @gpaolopasco and Crossword Owl newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…
Amanda Rafkin @AmandaRafkin
2K Followers 414 Following Editor of the USA Today crossword, pianist, and game enthusiast. Just here for the trolls because I, too, like riddles and word play. 🏳️🌈
Rachel Fabi, PhD @faBioethics
4K Followers 2K Following Associate Professor of Bioethics • immigration, public health ethics, crosswords • she/her • https://t.co/91U9KbalSx • views my own
alexandra ladee @xandraladee
2K Followers 245 Following a. ladee solved/wrote/edited your crossword (alias for brooke husic) (she/her)
Stella Zawistowski @stellaphone
3K Followers 970 Following Personal records: Back squat, 265 lb. New York Times Sunday crossword, 4 minutes, 31 seconds. I tweet a #crypticclueaday. Book! https://t.co/s04gmNz30m
Evan Birnholz @evanbirnholz
4K Followers 358 Following Sunday crossword writer for The Washington Post. Archive of free puzzles available at my website, Devil Cross.
Sam Ezersky @thegridkid
26K Followers 406 Following Digital Puzzles Editor @nytimes: Crosswords, #SpellingBee 🐝, etc ”Boyish quipster,” per Vanity Fair Sad Baltimore sports fan Chromesthete WAHOOWA
Dan Feyer @danfeyer
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Will Nediger @bewildering_ly
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Nate Cardin (he/him) .. @naytnaytnayt
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Adam Wagner @Adam__Wagner
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ada luna @adanicklmao
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Natan Last @natanlast
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Wyna @wynaliu
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andy "committing to t.. @holyhegemony
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apiyo puzzles @apiyo_puzzles
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Amanda Rafkin @AmandaRafkin
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Rachel Fabi, PhD @faBioethics
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alexandra ladee @xandraladee
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Stella Zawistowski @stellaphone
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Evan Birnholz @evanbirnholz
4K Followers 358 Following Sunday crossword writer for The Washington Post. Archive of free puzzles available at my website, Devil Cross.
Rex Parker 🐈🐾�.. @rexparker
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Sam Ezersky @thegridkid
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Dan Feyer @danfeyer
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Will Nediger @bewildering_ly
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Nate Cardin (he/him) .. @naytnaytnayt
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Adam Wagner @Adam__Wagner
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ada luna @adanicklmao
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Natan Last @natanlast
3K Followers 4K Following Migration/econ/tech: @USCIS, @asylumadvocacy, IRC, @UNmigration • Crosswords: @newyorker @nytimes • Soon: nonfic for @PantheonBooks • Poet • Rep: @kategarrick
Wyna @wynaliu
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Kate Hawkins @kateshawkins
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Naomi Fry @frynaomifry
65K Followers 4K Following staff writer @newyorker | never underestimate the power of I'LL. SHOW. YOU. -- eli roth to harvey levin | my name is pronounced "nomi" just like in showgirls
andy "committing to t.. @holyhegemony
1K Followers 349 Following 35/crosswords. This is weird for me because it involves saying things. I *am* here to make friends.™ He/him/his.
Kat Downs Mulder @katdowns
8K Followers 4K Following SVP & General Manager @Yahoo news and home. I love technology, design and journalism. Proud @washingtonpost, UNC alum. Crafty. Mom.
Josh Sevin @sevinpuzzles
62 Followers 101 Following Celebrating all things puzzle - crosswords, jigsaws, escape rooms, #NYTGames, Sudoku, wordplay, et. al. - with healthy doses of joshing & numbers
David Nee @dav_nee
172 Followers 1K Following English PhD. Shakespeare and the Afterlives of Form. Poetry, languages, Renaissance drama, world lit. 正在學習漢語。
David Bukszpan @words_wtf
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is it normal to be brought to tears reading the monthly newsletter from my 8-month-old child's daycare? "this month our children will embrace vegetables as part of our gardening theme. they will sing along with buzzing bees and pull out a carrot to make their own soup"
It's a beautiful Friday night. Can I interest you in 6K words about New York City garbage? newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
Some bittersweet personal news: I'm retiring at the end of this month, after 36 years with the Chronicle. Covering the Bay Area's musical riches through the decades has been a joy and a privilege beyond anything I could have imagined. sfchronicle.com/membership/art…
I said I'd give myself time to get my thoughts together after #ACPT2024 but they've pretty much constantly been "what!!! what the!!!" so just gonna post through it. Surreal weekend, which I'm still trying to wrap my head around
thrilled to be doin' a lil digital archive work with handsome geniuses @bgzimmer and @xor! subscribe subscribe subscribe crosswordcraze.today
Now presenting (from @natanlast, @xor and me)... Crossword Craze, celebrating a century of crossword-mania. We'll be looking back at how the craze took off in 1924 from the vantage point of 2024. Subscribe to get it in your inbox! crosswordcraze.today/introducing/
@kateschmate @Lizzymaynes Cute part on accuracy re: Swedish ____ (Muppet with bushy eyebrows), not a unibrow. Loved it
so proud to have @Lizzymaynes as a boss - her keynote on "taking crosswords seriously" was brilliant, funny, and super engaging. worth watching whether you have a connection with crosswords or not, imo
here's the youtube playlist of all the amazing talks by @helvetica, @malisolves, @xor, @faBioethics, @AVCXWord, and an incredible keynote from @Lizzymaynes youtube.com/playlist?list=…
I am so so so so proud of my beautiful friend @gpaolopasco for winning #ACPT2024 today!! Paolo is one of the kindest and best humans in the world! He is also an incredible model for homemade crossword shirts! He truly does it all!!! CONGRATS KING!!
check out the new @NewYorker mini crossword puzzles on Thursdays and Fridays! And my easy-breezy beginner-friendly puzzles will now have a new home on Wednesdays 😊 See you there!
Introducing something special for the overscheduled puzzler: the Mini Crossword. You can finish it in the span of a subway transfer, or while you’re waiting for your latte. nyer.cm/cOiCPdt
i fear not enough of you clicked through to the article and are therefore in danger of having not seen our new little guy. it's ok, i am here to help
Introducing something special for the overscheduled puzzler: the Mini Crossword. You can finish it in the span of a subway transfer, or while you’re waiting for your latte. nyer.cm/cOiCPdt
The POPULARIZERS are bringing puzzles to the people: #WomenInPuzzling - Ana Roeslzer (@PuzzledPint co-founder) - Jen Orehowsky (@theGamesMag ed.) - Karen Kavett (jigsaw YouTuber) - @Lizzymaynes (@NewYorker puzzle ed.) - Ophira Eisenberg (comic puzzler) @karenpuzzles @OphiraE 6/9
What a treat to join brilliant geniuses/great hangs Naomi, Vinson, and Alex on THE BEST PODCAST
we talk about WORK NOVELS and TV SHOWS on today's pod, with the help of the fantastic @xwaldie !!
So grateful to @HarvardBooks @francescawade and the tbh BIG turnout on a rainy day. It’s a launch! 🚀
So excited to publish this profile-ette of the writer Kate Zambreno, whose varied career tells a story about how life is conducted in phases, personae, both chosen and unchosen: newyorker.com/culture/person…
In which @charlottetklein says some nice things about my friends 🥲 Love this team!! And I LOVE the work we do 💪 vanityfair.com/news/inside-th…
The most wonderful time of the year 🧩
It’s that time of year: the Cartoons & Puzzles issue is here! 🎁🧩🪩 newyorker.com/cartoons-and-p…
Congrats to @Lizzymaynes and the rest of the spectacular Puzzles & Games editorial team @NewYorker
It’s that time of year: the Cartoons & Puzzles issue is here! 🎁🧩🪩 newyorker.com/cartoons-and-p…
I have a piece in this week's New Yorker mag on two of my favorite things: word games and immigration. It's the story of Mangesh Ghogre, a crossword writer who got an "extraordinary ability" visa from India to the U.S. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
For @yalereview I wrote about Big Bad Algorithms—and why it’s so hard to articulate their obvious impact on our lives yalereview.org/article/anna-s…
it's my birthday so you have to solve my crossword in today's @NewYorker newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…
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