TWC89: Stefan Fatsis

Journalist Stefan Fatsis discusses his new book, Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary. To tell the story of the dictionary, Fatsis embedded himself at Merriam-Webster as a lexicographer-in-training. His book tells the history and art of dictionary-making, and it looks at the modern threats to the field of defining and the commercial viability for one of the most widely circulated categories of publication.