Unpacking Sondheim: Me and my book in Games Magazine
As I shared last month, Andrew Parr (@lego_nerd_puzzles) wrote not one but TWO articles about the Sondheim auction, for Games WORLD OF PUZZLES magazine. The first second is out NOW.
This one also includes a number of my photos but this time focuses on what happened once I brought home Andrew’s winnings - hundreds upon hundreds of game and puzzle magazines - and shared the collection with him over Zoom to triage this remarkable collection.
(and yeah, that is a photo of me with Will Shortz delivering some gifts from Andrew’s collection…)
NOT TO BE MISSED. Check out an excerpt below:
It was decided that Barry, a thorough documentarian, would unpack the entire lot while I watched on a Zoom call. During the call, we would catalog every item from each box so I could decide what I wanted to keep, and which items could be gifted, sold, or donated to a museum.
The unboxing day arrived. We connected online and I eagerly watched from Barry’s phone, which was held on an angle tripod so I could see into the boxes. And the first hour we unpacked two boxes which contained the following…