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Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble

Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble

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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Stefan Fatsis, whose classic Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble 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.

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