num_pages: 88
description: Tara Laskowski explains There are many etiquette books from Emily Post and others that tell you what to do when attending a wedding setting the table asking for a promotion introducing yourself at a party. What I became interested in is the darker side of etiquettethe way people conduct themselves in situations that Emily Post would never write about. This book started with the story The Etiquette of Adultery. I loved that title and all that it suggested. Was there an etiquette a set of unwritten rules for a situation that seemed to break all the rules of a decent society? From there the collection grewexploring the etiquette of obesity dementia infertility arson etc. These stories were really fun to write for two reasons. One they allowed me to experiment with form writing in small sections chapters definitions and other pieces of a suggested larger text. And two I loved seeing how the characters emerged from each story. Each person in these ten stories ends up writing their own codes of etiquette which I think is actually true in life. We all have our rules our moral codes our lines that we wont cross. Its when we cross those lines that things get really interesting.
language: English
title: Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons
publisher: Matter Press