This interview was originally broadcast on Dec. 5, 2011. Social Q’s is now out in paperback.
Need advice on when it’s appropriate to break up with someone over email? Want to know how to react if your dinner companion whips out a cellphone midway through a meal? What about how to deal with your annoying relatives during the holidays?
Ask Philip Galanes. The New York Times advice columnist has been answering readers’ questions about all sorts of social conundrums for the past three years. In his new book, Social Q’s: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries and Quagmires of Today, Galanes details how to handle relationships, moral dilemmas and everyday scenarios made all the more difficult by the peculiarities of our digital world.
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