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The Book Club: inside the world of competitive Scrabble
Mar 26, 2026
· 49m
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Stefan Fatsis, whose classic <em>Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble</em> is 25 years old this year. Stefan tells me how a journalistic project turned into a quarter-century obsession, how dramatically tournament Scrabble differs from the living-room game, why we’re still having the same arguments over word lists … and how it has become a family story for him. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. …
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