About this item
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.
About the Author
Lizzie Skurnick is the author of "That Should Be a Word," a compendium of words for the modern age, based on her New York Times Book Review column of the same name. She's also the author of "Shelf Discovery," a collection of essays on the best teen reading of her youth, based on her "Fine Lines" column on Jezebel.com, and the editor of Lizzie Skurnick Books, an imprint of Ig publishing, which reissues the best young adult books from the 30s to the 80s, including the popular "All-of-a-Kind Family" series. She lives in Jersey City, NJ.
