His knowledge of the theatre has proved invaluable when it comes to writing conversation.
Stern also makes her own art out of, among other things, the scraps of paper she uses for written conversations.
That's one reason Mr. Nelson, in an interview at the Public, declined to say why he wrote "Conversations in Tusculum".
One of his most striking books is Dialoghi con Leucò (1947; Dialogues with Leucò, 1965), poetically written conversations about the human condition.
"Someone told me a good writing tip is to write conversations with people you can't have conversations with, that it's quite useful for developing characters," she explains.
In a letter sent to alumni in June, he wrote, "Conversations need to continue with candor.... Ultimately, we need to work together to understand what may have happened and why".
Eventually, says Mr Saffo, "they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test"—in other words, an artificial intelligence that can pass as a human in written conversations.
I would and will steal as many of her jokes as I can, and I love her plays for reminding me of the visual, visceral nature of our medium as I try to remember not to just write conversations.
These concerns are related in turn to the study of identity in text termed here 'textual persona', with a similar approach having been previously applied to the study of identity in online written conversations (see for example Don 2007, 2008, 2011).
A mute underclassman girl named Mio Kouzuki meets Kōhei one day and uses a sketchbook to carry on written conversations.
