Hilarious hypothetical conversations spanning time and space. Lady Bird Johnson and Marilyn Monroe discuss the virtues of love and marriage. Coco Chanel and Christopher Marlow weigh in on sexuality. Noel Coward discusses sex with Tennessee Williams. But matters of the heart aren't the only topics addressed by luminaries from Sophocles to Barack Obama. Carl Jung reveals the secret to psychiatry: "Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you." Oprah Winfrey explains why she gave up her dream of becoming an interior designer: "It's easier for me to make multi-million dollar decisions, than...

1964 isn't shaping up to be a banner year for Tacoma Police Captain Thomas Gaston. A childhood friend has been murdered. Gaston has been charged with helping to bomb his favorite watering hole. He has been stripped of command of the TPD's detective bureau and replaced by his best friend. His wife has tried to skewer his boss with a pair of shears. His father has suffered a stroke. Two shadowy figures may be trying to kill him. A black trusty is about to reveal he's not what he appears to be. And Gaston's girlfriend is working on a book of poetry. How could things get any worse?

The DeMYTHStification of Writing is a failsafe, easily mastered approach to written communication, one that emphasizes common sense and skills that readers have been honing since infancy. It is for those among us who never mastered grammar - the language of language - and whose teachers never had a kind word for anything they wrote. It is for those in the workforce who believe a simple business letter is beyond them. It is for journalists who aren't so set in their ways that they are unwilling to entertain the possibility that there might be more efficient, perhaps even more effective, ways...