King's guest for this edition is Neil Simon, who discusses the following topics, among others: combining his signature comedic style with a "strong dramatic structure"; his habit of shelving and eventually returning to his unfinished works, including his nine-year hiatus in writing "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983); his sense that writers subconsciously work on their creations without realizing it; the challenge of writing a play "where everyone's funny"; being labeled "underrated," and why some critics believe that a prolific and successful writer cannot be "serious" about work; how his 1991 Pulitzer Prize has affected his work and outlook; working with his brother and surrogate father Danny, who, along with Carl Reiner, was his "spokesman" in writers' rooms when he was too shy to speak up; how his plays "Come Blow Your Horn" (1961) and "Broadway Bound" (1986) offer "reverse" perspectives on the same troubled family, inspired by his own; his habit of rewriting his works based on audience reactions and his own observations at the first table read; his interest in accurately reflecting life by mixing comedy and drama, as seen in "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" (1971), which follows a man's emotional struggle after losing his job; his sense that every play needs "four great scenes" in order to succeed; why he tends to lose interest in his works soon after they open; why he still writes longhand in notebooks and his need to understand his characters' physical appearances and locations; how a play "takes care of itself" once the first act is written; why "Plaza Suite" was originally a one-act play before he added two subsequent scenes set in the same hotel room; his work on the upcoming stage musical version of "The Goodbye Girl" (1993); the film adaption of "Lost in Yonkers" (1993); his new play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" (1993); his upcoming autobiography "Rewrites: A Memoir" (1996); inspiration from the 1973 death of his first wife Joan Baim as well as the Book of Jo