(hb; 2011: nonfiction)
From
the back cover
“One
of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and
writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last
published interview.
“During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut—which collects interviews from throughout his career—we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end.”
“During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut—which collects interviews from throughout his career—we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end.”
Review
This
collection of magazine interviews, spanning from 1977 to 2007, is a good, witty
and provocative read if you are a Kurt Vonnegut fan. If you read A Man Without a Country, some of what
Vonnegut says will likely be familiar. My favorite interview is “The Joe &
Kurt Show”, from Playboy, May 1992. It is especially fun to see Joseph Heller
and Vonnegut, friends, colleagues and neighbors verbally play off and support
each other, even as they make thoughtful points about war, politics, society
and personal relationships.
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