| Author |
Vonnegut, Kurt.
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| Imprint |
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1988. |
| Description |
xix, 305 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Call # |
813 V |
| Series |
Literary conversations series
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Literary conversations series.
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| Note |
The interviews took place between early 1969 and Oct. 17, 1987. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Kurt Vonnegut, head bokononist / C.D.B. Bryan -- Kurt Vonnegut / Robert Taylor -- The now generation knew him when / Wilfred Sheed -- Kurt Vonnegut / Harry Reasoner -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., lights comic paths of despair / Israel Shenker -- Vonnegut is having fun doing a play / Mel Gussow -- Kurt's college cult adopts him as literary guru at 48 / Carol Kramer -- The masks of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Richard Todd -- The conscience of the writer / Publishers Weekly -- Running experiments off : an interview / Laurie Clancy -- "Unstuck in time" ... a real Kurt Vonnegut : the reluctant guru of searching youth / William T. Noble -- An interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Frank McLaughlin -- Playboy interview / David Standish -- A talk with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Robert Scholes -- Meeting my maker : a visit with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., by Kilgore Trout / Greg Mitchell -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Joe David Bellamy and John Casey -- Kurt Vonnegut : the art of fiction LXIV / David Hayman [and others] -- Two conversations with Kurt Vonnegut / Charles Reilly -- There must be more to love than death : a conversation with Kurt Vonnegut / Robert Musil -- A skull session with Kurt Vonnegut / Hank Nuwer -- An interview with Kurt Vonnegut / William Rodney Allen and Paul Smith -- Having enough : a talk with Kurt Vonnegut / William Rodney Allen and Paul Smith. |
| Summary |
Perhaps because Vonnegut is not a literary intellectual--he studied chemistry and anthropology in college--that he gives ingratiating interviews. Or perhaps because his entree into writing was journalism, that he is leery of boring any prospective reader. The peppery wit and sweet/sour philosophy that delight his readers also spices his conversation. Vonnegut talks about writers and writing in a nonstuffy, unacademic way. He is more concerned about morals and politics than aesthetics, with good punch lives rather than realistic dialogue. His concerns are nearly the same as those of the average person. They recommend his novels to many who read little fiction, and they give his conversation a common appeal. ISBN 0-87805-357-3: $27.95. |
| Subject |
Vonnegut, Kurt -- Interviews.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Fiction -- Authorship.
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Vonnegut, Kurt. (OCoLC)fst00036929 |
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Fiction -- Authorship.
(OCoLC)fst00923713
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Novelists, American. (OCoLC)fst01039688
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1900-1999 |
| Genre |
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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Interviews.
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| Subject |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
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| Addl. Author |
Allen, William Rodney.
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| ISBN |
0878053573 (alk. paper) : |
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0878053581 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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