“Improv Nation” by Sam Wasson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (449 pages, $28) If dying is easy and comedy is hard, then improv is darned near impossible. In his studious but breezy book, “Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art,” author Sam Wasson tracks the relatively young craft of creating humor in the same time it took Neil Simon to sharpen a pencil, making readers feel like they’re sweating on stage with its quick-witted [...]
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