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Author: A Few Seconds of Panic, Word Freak, Wild & Outside. NPR commentator, Slate podcaster, Scrabble and GU11 soccer coach.

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What We’re Reading: Dictionaries, Kitchens, and Cheesecake

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By Stefan Fatsis, Banana Yoshimoto, Mark Kurlansky
| Saturday Evening Post Magazine Verified
by Stefan Fatsis After establishing himself as a top sports journalist, Stefan Fatsis is quietly building a name amongst the word nerds, starting with his 2001 bestseller Word Freak, about competitive Scrabble tournaments. His latest effort takes readers on a deep dive into that bastion of English language, the dictionary. Fatsis didn’t just interview lexicographers to write this book; he went all-in, embedding himself as a lexicographer-in-training at Merriam-Webster.
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Crossplayed

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By Stefan Fatsis
| Substack
At the end of 2025, the New York Timesannounced that it was adding to its market-crushing arsenal of time-sucking fun a two-sided game with “players taking turns building words off one another to earn points.” On social media, commenters truth-squadded the news. “Is this uhhhh scrabble,” @chrissyteigen—that Chrissy Teigen—wrote. Yes, Crossplay is an obvious knockoff. Since the game’s rollout in late January, the Times has acknowledged Scrabble only glancingly.
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JAKE, JAKER, JAKEST Original

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By Stefan Fatsis
| Substack
Screenshot courtesy Let’s Play Scrabble UNDER AN OAK-BEAMED CEILING on the top floor of one of Washington, D.C.’s coolest museums, Planet Word, more than 90 kids gathered last April to vie for $5,000 and youth Scrabble bragging rights. The North American School Scrabble Championship is serious business. The No. 1 high-school seed was ranked in the top 150 of all players in the U.S. and Canada.
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