If current trends hold, the future’s great American novels will be movies or TV series. Film fully exploits sight and sound as well as action and dialogue, and—unlike video games—it requires little time or effort to participate in a complete story. Hollywood would be helpless without the imagination and craft of the not-so-famous people who spin narratives and sparkling dialogue out of thin air. Many screenwriters are self-taught, some graduate from fancy film schools (*cough* USC *cough*), and some are also novelists (see: F. Scott […]