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Talk is tricky. You offend when you don't mean to—or don't when you do. Be tongue tied no more. Know what to do when the inadvertent affront occurs or a professional conversation suddenly veers toward sex. Daniel Menaker, who learned how to lift up and let down many a writer in his long career as an editor at The New Yorker and Random House, explores the finer points of verbal exchange in his new book, A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation. |
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HughMunn
Ooh . . . look, everybody.
It's Harriet Potter.
hemingway37
She kind of reminds of Marcie from Charlie Browns Peanut gang. It's the glasses more than anything. I think she's cute.
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