That Should be a Word - Softcover

Skurnick, Lizzie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761182683 ISBN 13: 9780761182689

Verlag: Workman Publishing, 2015

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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 the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. 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.

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Lizzie Skurnick is the author of Shelf Discovery (as well as ten teen books in the Sweet Valley High, Love Stories, and Alias series), and the founder of Lizzie Skurnick Books (an imprint of Ig Publishing), which rediscovers classic Young Adult novels. In addition to her weekly “That Should Be a Word” column in the New York Times Magazine, she writes the “Fine Lines” column on Jezebel.com. Her first blog, Theoldhag.com, was one of the first to go viral.  She contributes regularly to NPR, is a frequent speaker at conferences such as BEA and SXSW, and is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle. She has written for publications ranging from Time to the Daily Beast to Bookforum, and recently launched Open Ticket, a collection of great essays and fiction by today’s writers, on Medium.com, the new online magazine created by one of Twitter’s founders. She lives in Jersey City with her son, Javier.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761182683
• ISBN 13: 9780761182689
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar