Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

di Chuck Augello (Autore)

McFarland & Co Inc, 2023

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.

• Autore: Chuck Augello
• Editore: McFarland & Co Inc
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 252 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 331 gr.
• EAN: 9781476690704

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