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Awl pal Lizzie Skurnick’s That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World is out…
No plans tonight? How does this sound? “Author, columnist, [AWL PAL] and book-besotted memoirist Lizzie Skurnick has gathered together her popular, sharp-witted New York Times columns, collecting and nearly doubling her neologisms for our times in her book That Should Be A Word: A Language…
“We are THRILLED AND TICKLED BEYOND BELIEF to announce the launch of Lizzie Skurnick Books, your gateway to the best YA from the 1930s through the 1970s. Get ready: Starting this fall, we’ll be publishing a novel a month for your pleasure, delectation, and…
“Gender cake parties,” in which an expectant couple learns the sex of their incipient offspring through the medium of flour, sugar eggs and frosting, are suddenly in the news. Of course, it is probably not news to you if you read Awl pal Lizzie Skurnick’s extensive meditation on the…
by Lizzie Skurnick
Immediately after my mother gave birth to my brother, the legend goes, she demanded three things of my father: a crate of avocados, a six-pack of beer and an…
Awl pal Lizzie Skurnick took issue with CBS legal correspondent Andrew Cohen’s “heartfelt tribute to the love that got away on the occasion of her wedding to someone else,” noting that “publishing, on her wedding day, a rundown that frames the lady’s virtues almost…
