New Words for How We Live Now

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 15, 2013

Culture critic, blogger and the author of Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century (Simon & Schuster, 2013), Liesl Schillinger, shares her neologisms for things like a person who overdoes the teeth-bleaching ("brightbite") or an old boyfriend who won't go away ("polterguy").  

Have you coined a word to fill a 21st century need or have you come across new situations that need a word to describe them?  

→Liesl Schillinger will read tomorrow at 7PM at the Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO.

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