{"title":"Paul Jj Payack","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"conversation-with-the-wordman-book-paul-jj-payack-9780595303472","title":"Conversation With The WordMan","description":"Conversation With The WordMan provides insight into the incisive analysis of words and language by Paul J Payack, The WordMan. Lovers of words and language will better understand why The WordMan has been frequently cited and quoted in the worldwide media whenever language-related questions arise: the origin of the word, chad, during the 2000 Presidential Elections, the number of words in the English Language, the most frequently spoken word on the planet (OK), the phenomenon of Bushisms (as in misunderestimate), and the impact of lingo that impact the language, such as the word bling-bling from 'hip-hop' artists. Payack has collected several dozen of The WordMan's creative works that all involve various aspects of language. These include 'meta-histories' that describe the invention of the Zero; essays on the invention of the infinity symbol, the history of chess, and the Ides of March; as well as 'metafictions' that describe 'the Dream-table, ' 'the Versificators, ' and 'Mythomania'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51250152472849,"sku":"NIN9780595303472","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52143432925457,"sku":"NLS9780595303472","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0595303471.jpg?v=1751041507"},{"product_id":"worlds-to-shatter-shattered-worlds-book-paul-jj-payack-9780595281695","title":"Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds","description":"Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds is a classically styled dramatic work often compared to the style and substance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead. \u003cp\u003e In Worlds to Shatter, you will encounter the all-too-strange world inhabited by such denizens as Sea-faring Time-worshippers and the Keeper of the Nothingness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Paul J Payack is a Silicon Valley marketing executive by day but by night he constructs the elaborate all-too-strange worlds such as that found in Worlds to Shatter, Shattered Worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Over his career as a writer, Payack has created hundreds of 'metafictions, ' in the various forms of novella, short stories, 'polyplays, ' essays, and 'collage narratives' that have been published in some dozen collections and hundreds of reviews and anthologies around the world, including The Paris Review, New Letters, Creative Computing, and Boulevard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At the same time, Payack has served as a senior executive for some of the world's leading high technology companies. Currently, Payack serves as Chairman, President \u0026amp; The WordMan at yourDictionary.com, the leading global language portal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e According to Sylvia Berkman, What continues to even more forcefully distinguish Paul Payack's later work is the nature of the creative intelligence from which it stems. This is an intelligence cool yet engaged, composed, witty, immensely concerned with the broad pivotal elements of the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121620349201,"sku":"NLS9780595281695","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780595281695.jpg?v=1757432880"},{"product_id":"plague-of-darkness-book-paul-jj-payack-9780595659487","title":"A Plague of Darkness","description":"A Plague of Darkness sheds light upon the sense of quiet desperation currently devastating the children of our society: Black, white, yellow or red. This plague, which we watch morph and transform itself into its differing forms every evening on our nightly news is an equal opportunity destroyer. During a cross-country plane trip, Payack penned A Plague of Darkness. To better illustrate (and encapsulate) the emotional toll this unseeable plague has wreaked upon the emotional lives of our children across the land, he further illustrated this essay with a series of some thirty 'collages' that will help you see the devastation through the mind (and eye) of the child, which remain hopeful, above all.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52135411843345,"sku":"NLS9780595659487","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780595659487.jpg?v=1757548926"},{"product_id":"plague-of-darkness-book-paul-jj-payack-9780595289745","title":"A Plague of Darkness","description":"A Plague of Darkness sheds light upon the sense of quiet desperation currently devastating the children of our society: Black, white, yellow or red. 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