With the Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt has recorded ten albums, including 69 Love Songs, named one of the 500 best albums by Rolling Stone. The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast recently illustrated Steve Martin's The Alphabet from A to Y (with Bonus Letter, Z).
Merritt is a gifted poet. -- Sarah Larson - New Yorker A fun little book. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune Delightfully whimsical. -- David Ulin - Los Angeles Times Pretty irresistible. -- David Daley - Salon Vaguely Seussian. -- Margaret Eby - Brooklyn Magazine Droll...pithy...witty. -- Dan DeLuca - Philadelphia Inquirer Like some of the best jokes, [Merritt's] humor also educates (stealthily!), and acclaimed cartoonist Roz Chast's drawings of grouchy Scotsmen and vampire dogs complement the wry lessons. -- Tiffany Gibert - Time Out New York When I have no Scrabble move, I really cannot bear it. From aa to za, help has arrived- Why, thank you, Stephin Merritt! -- Lemony Snicket, best-selling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events This little book of tiny words by Stephin Merritt is superb; it's funny and it's useful too. (This is the Neil Gaiman blurb.) -- Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane I love this book of Scrabble twos, with art and wit for mi and ye; so now please do the thousand threes, from aah to zzz. -- Stefan Fatsis, best-selling author of Word Freak Ha! -- Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed Oy, ow, my wounded qi! I'll never beat Stephin at Scrabble again. Wo(e) is me. -- Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers