Everything Etiquette Book

by Nat Segaloff, Bill Morrison (Illustrator), Barry Littmann (Illustrator)

Featuring thousands of quick tips and helpful suggestions on how to deal with a range of sticky situations, this easy-to-use social reference also includes etiquette hints on such modern issues as e-mail and dating in the 1990s. Original.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Nat Segaloff is a writer-producer-journalist. He covered the film industry for The Boston Herald, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), and broadcaster (Group W, CBS, Storer). He is the author of twenty books including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin, Arthur Penn: American Director and Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors in addition to career monographs on Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky and John Milius. His writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Time Out (US), MacWorld and American Movie Classics Magazine. He was also senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com and contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine.

In 1996 he formed the multi-media production company Alien Voices with actors Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie and produced five best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon & Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon, all of which feature Star Trek casts.

Reviews

[Leisha Wharfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

Modern etiquette book by a cranky writer whose advice is not always polite.

[Mariah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Random book to read, I know. I got a lot of good information, and still refer to it...like a little hand book when I'm not sure what to do. It was great help in figuring out who gets tips and how much is appropriate. Now that we have birthday parties, I've been able to use the suggestions in the book for planning and gift giving. Despite my husband's teasing he's used it a couple times too. :)

[Kristine (fezabel) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is good for families with small children. The first four chapters are nothing but etiquette about pregnancy, birth, infants, and toddlers. The rest of the book seems to be mostly about how to teach your children good manners.

If you're looking for a general good etiquette book, this is not it.

[Marian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can't even remember why I bought this book, but now I will look up Bat mitzvah hints for the non- Jewish and see if it's in there--

[Olivia · Rating 1 out of 5]

horrible, sooooo boring, but i had to read it for school research. it is the most dull thing you will ever come across