How to be cool when you're afraid you've forgotten how . . .
Sure, you can try to stay younger by exercising, coloring your hair, and wearing stylish clothes—but how do you respond when someone asks, "Do you Twitter?" How Not to Act Old gives you simple ways to come back from over the hill and to act as young as you look.
Covering everything from old-people entertainment (cancel that dinner party!) to old-people communication (it's called a "voice mail," not a "message," and no one leaves or listens to them anyway), Pamela Redmond Satran decodes the behaviors, viewpoints, and cultural touchstones that separate you from the hip young person you wish you still were. This irreverent guide is essential for anyone who doesn't want to embarrass their kids—or themselves.
About the Author
Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of five novels: The Man I Should Have Married, Babes in Captivity, Younger, Suburbanistas, and The Home for Wayward Supermodels. She is also the coauthor, with Linda Rosenkrantz, of nine bestselling baby name guides, including Cool Names for Babies and The Baby Name Bible, which they have developed into a website called nameberry.com. She cowrites The Glamour List column for Glamour and Back to the Ranch for Park Place, a New Jersey Monthly publication, and writes for The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and More magazine. She and her husband, Richard Satran, an editor at Fidelity.com, are the parents of a daughter, Rory, who is a fashion editor in Paris; son Joe, a student at Yale; and Owen, in high school. Satran lives in New Jersey, where she is the founder of the 800-member Montclair Editors & Writers (MEWS) group.
