# Adrienne Raphel and Will Shortz: National Book Festival 2021

Crossword puzzle enthusiast Adrienne Raphel, author of "Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them" (Penguin), and puzzlemaster Will Shortz, author of "The New York Times Hardest Crosswords Volume 8: 50 Friday and Saturday Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain" (St. Martin's Griffin) and "The New York Times Super Sunday Crosswords Volume 10: 50 Sunday Puzzles External" (St. Martin's Griffin), discuss their obsessive crossword fascination with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast "Up First."

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697678/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024697678?play=1)