Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays
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This collection of 29 interviews explores the outer reaches of the Kurt Vonnegut universe. Conversations reveal how Robert B. Weide’s letter to Kurt led to a long friendship and an acclaimed documentary, how readers in the former Soviet Union fell in love with Vonnegut during the Cold War, how Ryan North and Albert Monteys adapted Slaughterhouse-Five into a graphic novel, how two podcasters introduced him to a new generation of readers, and how Vonnegut’s time teaching at the Iowa Writers Workshop helped transform him from an unknown paperback writer into a literary superstar.
Also included are eight essays by the author. These cover Vonnegut’s thoughts on guns and loneliness, evaluate his posthumous publications, offer a guide to the best Vonnegut videos available online, and ask questions like “Was Kurt Vonnegut secretly a romance writer?” A resource for students, scholars and fans, this book offers windows into Vonnegut’s life and art that are often overlooked in standard biographies.
Praise for this book
"Sheds a unique light on Vonnegut and the lasting impact of his writings. Readers will come away with a deeper knowledge of Vonnegut's influences and focuses. Highly recommendable to students and readers of Vonnegut...features insights which are simply unavailable elsewhere."
“What a book! All these facets make for a most complete portrait of Kurt Vonnegut.”