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Kurt Vonnegut on How to Write a Story
Via The Atlantic.
Bonus: Kurt Vonnegut on How to Write a Letter to Someone Who Burns Your Books.
Via BoingBoing.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down…. Kurt Vonnegut (PDF of above photos)
How to write with style, by Kurt Vonnegut
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The equilibrium of fiction, or what the Occupy movement can learn from a former GE PR executive.
Kurt Vonnegut — prolific author, anarchist,Second Life dweller, imaginary interviewer of the dead. And, apparently, troubled soul. At least that’s what’s behind the curtainCharles Shields (of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee fame) peels in And So It Goes, subtitled Kurt Vonnegut: A Life — the first-ever true Vonnegut biography, revealing a vulnerable private man behind the public persona, a difficult and damaged man deeply scarred by his experiences.
The project began in 2006, when Shields reached out to Vonnegut in a letter, asking his permission for a planned biography. Though Vonnegut at first declined, Shields wasn’t ready to take “no” for an answer and eventually persuaded the counterculture hero into a “yes,” spending precious time with Vonnegut and his letters during the last year of the author’s life.
