Ken Levine says nice, true things about a nice, true person, Treva Silverman — or as we call her, The Lovely Treva. A few years ago when I was teaching comedy writing down at U.S.C., I prevailed on Treva to come down and speak to my class. They learned a lot more from her in that one session than they did from me in all the others. Above all, she impressed on them the need to take one's writing seriously…but not so seriously that one lost touch with reality and one's own humanity. And one female student in particular remarked that after listening to Treva, she was no longer afraid of being the "female writer" in a roomful of males.