Stefan Fatsis

Thanks!

Omg it was the absolute worst. I alternated between screaming and crying

Lost an entire chapter of my first book!

Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers I found this article by a former Harvard Crimson President very disturbing. The moral bankruptcy that led the Crimson to endorse BDS some time ago, without subsequent withdrawal, appears to have spread to the news pages. (I have shared Stoll's article to several at the Crimson without substantive response and this tracks with the things I have observed.) Many of the students I have engaged with at the Crimson have high integrity and smarts but I do hope alumni trustees will investigate and take any necessary steps lest a problematic situation deteriorate further.

News Opinion Arts Blog Magazine Metro Multimedia Sports Newsletter Office Hours Editor's Pick Tips Donate Career Guide Please disable your ad blocker for The Crimson. As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!

Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...

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Day 2 of a Club 56 tournament (in which I’m playing) starts in a half hour!

Thanks, Rob!

I’m a bit sad about that too!

No way!

"Unabridged" Book Reading/Signing Join author Stefan Fatsis for a reading from his new book "Unabridged"! Copies of the book will be available to purchase at QED. About the book: Words are the currency of culture—and never more than t...

New Yorkers! Book event alert! Tonight, 6 pm at QED Astoria. I promise to talk about trying to get the farting sense of "Dutch oven" into the dictionary. Bonus: Hot Scrabble talk qedastoria.com/products/una...

The Man Who Defined "Sheeple," With Stefan Fatsis | Defector Stefan Fatsis went 17 years between books, but you wouldn’t say that he was taking it easy. He was on NPR and co-hosted Slate’s Hang Up and Listen podcast for many years, and was writing big feature…

On this week's Distraction, Stefan Fatsis talks about the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. defector.com/the-man-who-...

This is a great episode that almost immediately sold me on the book “Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary” by @stefanfatsis.bsky.social

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Choosing the Word of the Year is No Easy Feat Thirty-five years ago, the late English professor Allan Metcalf had an idea. “I was thinking that Time magazine has its Person of the Year,” he told me, “and why can’t we do for words what Time did…

@stefanfatsis.bsky.social explains why choosing the word of the year is such an intense process.

Choosing the Word of the Year is No Easy Feat Thirty-five years ago, the late English professor Allan Metcalf had an idea. “I was thinking that Time magazine has its Person of the Year,” he told me, “and why can’t we do for words what Time did…

Wrote about the past and present of Word of the Year for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy. Some 2025 candidates in the piece: "Kavanaugh stop," "Coldplayed," "broligarchy," "amphipha," "chopped unc," and the hard-charging "Trumpstein files" #wordoftheyear

You Depraved the Manner of Men with Stefan Fatsis Stefan Fatsis joins Drew and Roth to talk about dictionaries! For his new book, Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary (out now), Stefan embedded with Merriam Webster, and eve...

New Distraction ep! Featuring the great @stefanfatsis.bsky.social! art19.com/shows/the-di...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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The 2025 Etymology of the Year “Fascism” is a challenging word for a challenging moment, and its origins may bear lessons for us.

John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social makes 'fascism' his Etymology of the Year

mashedradish.com/2025/11/04/f...

I’m a little late nighty, but once again @squawkinsports.bsky.social crushed. With @williamfleitch.bsky.social
@stefanfatsis.bsky.social
@davidjroth.bsky.social

12/4. Bitches.

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Dude you’re the good one at trivia

The promo image for the November 6 installment of Squawkin Sports, at which Patrick Sauer and I will interview Will Leitch and Stefan Fatsis about their books, at 7pm.

We're doing this on Thursday night. Fun books, iconic bloggers, the type of German beers they serve in a big ceramic mug. Not a lot of sports, if we're being honest, but I'll ask Will about Jake Plummer or something.

I thought I was the Jake Plummer expert

Sippin’ piña coladas on the back deck

lol I was just relegated! But which Calamity Premiership regular are you? Enjoy the book (and I hope my sports ones too)!

Jake the Snake. My holder.

A avalanche of rocks comes tumbling down the mountain, threatening the lives of the very brave Frog and very brave Toad. From "Dragons and Giants" In *Frog and Toad Together*

They climbed higher, and they heard a loud noise. Many large stones were rolling down the mountain.

COME CELEBRATE ZOHRAN WEEK AT ONE OR BOTH OF THESE AWESOME BK BOOK JAWNS

W/ @willleitch.bsky.social
@stefanfatsis.bsky.social
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@risenc.bsky.social

(5% SNAP goes for Red Scare book/wine sales too).

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If @joshuablevin.bsky.social makes it you should listen to it

🙏 Enjoy!

🙏 for the thoughtful review!

Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary | Washington Independent Review of Books The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

An exceedingly cromulent story about defining words. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/u... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @stefanfatsis.bsky.social #booksky