Stefan Fatsis
@stefanfatsis
Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Under the dictionary’s rules! Per @merriam-webster.com viking has a lowercase non-proper sense but Amazonian does not (amazon does)
As a washed print guy, pretty damn cool to see Dan Piepenbring's thoughtful @nytimes.com review of UNABRIDGED in Sunday's ink-and-paper books section
Technically I believe this is known as a clusterfuck of sportocrats
Very psyched to talk with @officialold97s.bsky.social frontman (and friend) @rhettmiller.bsky.social. I've got a new book, he's got a new album, let's go.
DMV friends: Book event tonight at 7 at Wonderland Books in Bethesda. Big-time get for my interviewer—@npr.org legend (and wife) @melissablock.bsky.social
Sure this was epic but the 1921 World Series ended in Game 8 “in a cloud of dust” at third base on a double play turned by George “High Pockets” Kelly
Super fun to be back on the show with these fine people (not pictured: also-fine producer Kevin Bendis)
Happy pub day to me! Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)