If one of your resolutions for the new year is to improve your conversational skills — and no offense, but maybe it should be — then I have the book for you. Friend of (and contributor to) this site Daniel Menaker has a book out next week called A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation. In it, he writes in his trademark funny and erudite way about the history of conversation and the ways in which we might improve our talking game. Menaker recently sat down with a very special guest to discuss the project: