Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Vonnegut, Kurt

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781609809621)

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Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Vonnegut, Kurt

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

$32.95
Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Vonnegut, Kurt

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

$32.95
Format: Hardcover
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The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers co-written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student.

Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition. McConnell has outfitted us for the journey, and in these 37 chapters covers the waterfront of how one American writer brought himself to the pinnacle of the writing art, and we can all benefit as a result.

Kurt Vonnegut was one of the few grandmasters of American literature, whose novels continue to influence new generations about the ways in which our imaginations can help us to live. Few aspects of his contribution have not been plumbed--fourteen novels, collections of his speeches, his essays, his letters, his plays--so this fresh view of him, written by a former student, is a bonanza for writers and readers and Vonnegut fans everywhere.

Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
ISBN-10: 1609809629
ISBN-13: 9781609809621
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019
Shelf Awareness 11/22/2019
By Kurt Vonnegut
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Author, editor, and writing teacher Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut's at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1965 to 1967, when Vonnegut--along with Nelson Algren and other notable authors--was in residence and finishing his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut and McConnell became friends, and stayed so for the rest of his life. She has published short memoirs of him in the Brooklyn Railand the Writer's Digest, and led a panel at the 2014 AWP conference titled "Vonnegut's Legacy: Writing About War and Other Debacles of the Human Condition." McConnell taught writing at Hunter College for thirty years, and she serves as the fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her fiction also won first prize in the New Ohio Review's 2015 Fiction Contest, first prize in Prime Number Magazine's 2014 Awards for Flash Fiction, and second prize in So to Speak's 2008 Fiction Contest. She lives in New York City and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with her husband, the artist Gary Kuehn.

Kurt Vonnegut was one of the few grandmasters of American literature, whose novels continue to influence new generations about the ways in which our imaginations can help us to live. Few aspects of his contribution have not been plumbed--fourteen novels, a collection of his speeches, essays, letters, a play--so this fresh self-portrait, written with the aid of a former student, is a bonanza for writers and readers everywhere.

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