Tuesday, July 8th

Lacking a married older man with whom to retire to the Hamptons for long weekends? Take a “guyatus” (their word, not ours; rhymes with hiatus) and head to NoLita literature mecca (an oxymoron, you’d think!) McNally Robinson to fete The DailyCandy Lexicon: Words That Don’t Exist but Should, a useful contribution to the Western canon by the women who send us those cute little e-mails we use to procrastinate at work. (Bonus dirty excerpt! “Drimming” = drunk text messaging.) A publicist assured us that there will be “at least one hot/young/straight/unattached guy in the media” in attendance. (Uh-oh—sounds like Tom Beller, no?) Either way, sounds like the kind of party that might require unwinding over country crooner Shelby Lynne, appearing possibly-ironically at the Music Hall of Williamsburg to perform hits such as “Things Are Tough All Over” and “I Won’t Die Alone” (indie rock doesn’t get us like this).

[The DailyCandy Lexicon: Words that Don’t Exist but Should launch; McNally Robinson, 52 Prince Street, 7 p.m.; Shelby Lynne at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, 8 p.m.]

mbryan@observer.com