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@Macaulay Author Series Featuring Lizzie Skurnick and Kera Bolonik

book events nycLizzie Skurnick will debut her new book, That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World.

Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital—excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony—staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in theNew York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms.

ABOUT THE BOOK: That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays—more than half of them new—arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships.

Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations, That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter—one who asserts that someone else cannot be hungry. On social media, like twiticule—to mock someone in 140 characters. On the modern family, like brattle—to discuss one’s children at great length, which leads to words like spamily—Facebook or Twitter updates about kids—and spawntourage—a group of approaching strollers.

From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society (bangst) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything? of import (celebracy), That Should Be a Word delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century. (Amazon)

Interviewed by Kera Bolonik. Kera is DAME’s executive editor. She is a culture writer whose work has appeared in New York magazine, the L.A. Times, the New York Times Book Review, Glamour, the Village Voice, Bookforum, The Nation, Salon, and Slate, among other places, and she has written two books about TV.

The event is free and open to all.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Offering unique previews of new work by the season’s best writers of fiction and nonfiction, paired in conversation with distinguished interviewers and an audience drawn from throughout the city, the@MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES takes place in the beautiful and historic Macaulay building, 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus, each event including a book signing and reception. Sponsored by Friends of Macaulay. For more information please visithttp://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/author-series

 











When: Tue., Mar. 10, 2015 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Macaulay Honors College
35 W. 67th St.
212-729-2900
Price: Free
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book events nycLizzie Skurnick will debut her new book, That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World.

Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital—excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony—staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in theNew York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms.

ABOUT THE BOOK: That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays—more than half of them new—arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships.

Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations, That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter—one who asserts that someone else cannot be hungry. On social media, like twiticule—to mock someone in 140 characters. On the modern family, like brattle—to discuss one’s children at great length, which leads to words like spamily—Facebook or Twitter updates about kids—and spawntourage—a group of approaching strollers.

From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society (bangst) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything? of import (celebracy), That Should Be a Word delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century. (Amazon)

Interviewed by Kera Bolonik. Kera is DAME’s executive editor. She is a culture writer whose work has appeared in New York magazine, the L.A. Times, the New York Times Book Review, Glamour, the Village Voice, Bookforum, The Nation, Salon, and Slate, among other places, and she has written two books about TV.

The event is free and open to all.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Offering unique previews of new work by the season’s best writers of fiction and nonfiction, paired in conversation with distinguished interviewers and an audience drawn from throughout the city, the@MACAULAY AUTHOR SERIES takes place in the beautiful and historic Macaulay building, 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus, each event including a book signing and reception. Sponsored by Friends of Macaulay. For more information please visithttp://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/author-series

 

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