Dean Olsher has been a radio broadcaster for thirty years. For much of the last twenty he has worked in public radio, serving as arts and culture correspondent for NPR News, and, most recently, as the creator and host of The Next Big Thing. He recorded the audio version of Steven Pinker's new book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature (published September 2007) and is at work on his own book about crossword puzzles (Scribner).