Guests and host are not only all formidable wordsmiths, but also professional students of different sorts of writing. This quicksilver conversation lets us in on shop talk at the highest level. JS: "Let's say that Bill Buckley writes a column that only 10 per cent can fully enjoy and fully esteem. All right, so then the other 90 per cent have lots of other stuff that they can read, and I'm sure Bill will manage without those 90 per cent." JJK: "Well, as I said in my affectionate--not hostile--review of your [WFB's] book, I wish you communicated a little lower ... because you have a lot to say, and a great many people who might benefit from your erudition and experience are squeezed out."