Going Nucular wild & chance

Going Nucular wild & chanceThe words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd. He pronounces that: "'Blog' is a syllable whose time has come," and that "You don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right," with which he launches into the effect of Google on our collective consciousness. Nunberg hears the

intent on teaching the boys as much about life as baseball

the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004

he suspects it's no accident

we’re serving mashed-up modern masterpieces

it is essential reading

This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die

It's a story of true love

A “funny and sweetly oddball” (Publishers Weekly

persecution

Nicole Daedone has been leading the "slow sex movement

and the following eleven months of the crucial first year

and arrogant resistance