Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble
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Episode: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble
Pub date: 2026-03-25
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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…
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