Description
Book Synopsis 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 adaptedSlaughterhouse-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
Trade Review
What a book! All these facets make for a most complete portrait of Kurt Vonnegut."—Jerome Klinkowitz, author of The Vonnegut Effect and Kurt Vonnegut's America
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adventures in the Vonnegutsphere: Or, How I Came to Create The Daily Vonnegut
- Beginnings and Endings
- Kurt Vonnegut: The Pop Quiz
- The Brothers Vonnegut: An Interview with Ginger Strand
- Love, Kurt—The Vonnegut Love Letters: An Interview with Edith Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut's Last Interview: An Interview with Heather Augustyn
- Kurt Vonnegut Remembered: An Interview with Jim O'Loughlin
- One Thief Was Saved: An Interview with Jerome Klinkowitz
- Posthumous Vonnegut
- The Classroom
- Lessons from the Monkey House
- Pity the Reader: An Interview with Suzanne McConnell
- A Delicate Aggression—Kurt Vonnegut at the Iowa Writers' Workshop: An Interview with David O. Dowling
- Teaching "Harrison Bergeron": An Interview with Benjamin Reed
- Waking People Up to the Prophetic Voice of Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview with Steve Almond
- Building the Monkey House: An Interview with Gregory Sumner
- Kurt Vonnegut, Romance Writer
- Planetary Citizen
- Lonesome No More: Kurt Vonnegut's Sunny Little Dream
- American Fascism: An Interview with Susan Farrell
- Tilting the Axis: An Interview with Christina Jarvis
- Vonnegut as Cultural Guide—Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union: An Interview with Sarah D. Phillips
- The Writer's Crusade: An Interview with Tom Roston
- Recreating the Same Old Nightmare: An Interview with Josh Privett
- Germs of Some Loathsome Disease: Kurt Vonnegut on Guns
- New Adventures in Scholarship
- The Vonnegutians
- Breaking Down Vonnegut: An Interview with Julia Whitehead
- An Overwhelming Treasure Trove: An Interview with Isabel Planton
- The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Interview with Marc Leeds
- Vonnegut and Hemingway: An Interview with Lawrence R. Broer
- A Landmark for Common Decency
- Beyond the Page
- Kurt Vonnegut: YouTuber
- Forever Altering Perceptions of Life: An Interview with Ryan North and Albert Monteys
- Staging Happy Birthday, Wanda June: An Interview with Jeff Wise and Matt Harrington
- Firing the Flare Gun and Shouting "Read it again!" An Interview with Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim
- Two Guys from the Same Family: An Interview with Robert Weide
- Bringing the Sirens to the Stage: An Interview with Ben Rock
- Directing Mother Night: An Interview with Keith Gordon
- And All Music Is Sacred: An Interview with Richard Auldon Clark
- Talking Vonnegut
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
