Town & Country Manners & Misdemeanors ─ Notes on Post-Civilized Society

No one understands etiquette better than Town & Country. Following the success of the magazine’sTown & Country Social Graces comes an all-new collection of essays on the challenges of navigating a fast-changing society when the old rules are unenforceable and new ones have yet to be proposed.
 
Thirty-five notable writers and celebrities contribute their thoughts, including: Henry Alford (“Rich You, Poor Me”), Eric Banks (“That’s Awkward!”), Kevin Conley (“A Farewell to Alms”), Joseph Epstein (“The Sweet Smell of Failure”), Dwight Garner (“Table Trouble”), Nina Griscom (“A Dying Art”), Joe Keenan (“The Me Diet”), Christine Lennon (“What Makes the Rich Beg?”), Andrew McCarthy (“Baby Boom”), Bob Morris (“The Hunger Games”), Sarah Payne Stuart (“On the Rocks”), Holly Peterson (“Host Nation”), Katie Roiphe (“Odd One In”), Andrew Solomon (“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”), Alexandra Styron (“The Sorest Loser”), Tim Teeman (“Is Privacy Dead?”), Michael Thomas (“Alimony Ever After”), Gully Wells (“Elegant Expletives”), and Ali Wentworth (“Confessions of a Bag Lady”).

Town & Country is the oldest general-interest magazine in the United States, having chronicled American life since 1846. It has been an acute observer of the social landscape, reporting on the pastimes and passions of leading figures and families in a way that reveals the truth about us all.