![]() ![]() This is not true of all varieties of novelist and screenwriter and the diarist-humorist type is another animal altogether. After a long pause, the woman responds, sphinxlike, “Yes. “Oh, you’re taking a course in conversation?” Martin’s character asks. Story” in which a table of gregarious lunchers is introduced to a mysterious guest who, they are told, has studied the art of conversation. It recalls the scene in Steve Martin’s 1991 comedy “L.A. ![]() winner (that’s National Book Award, not basketball), or blockbuster film writer. ![]() Walk into a crowded, humming party and spot the one person standing silent as a lamp in the shadows, or lurking against a wall absorbing someone else’s harangue, and you may well have found your future N.B.A. It’s remarkable how many novelists and screenwriters are not chatty people. ![]()
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