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Title: Pity the Reader On Writing With Style
Author: VONNEGUT KURT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/01/2021
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, \”Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul.\” He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Readeris the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two go together.
It includes rare photos and reproductions, Vonnegut’s own account in his own words of how he became a writer and why it matters, and previously untold stories by and about Vonnegut as teacher and friend.
It turns out he was generous to a fault about students’ writing, idiosyncratic, a bit tortured and always creative as a teacher, and here in this book that portrait becomes our gateway into getting to know Kurt Vonnegut better than we ever have before as a human being.
Vonnegut recounts that his favorite work of art among all those his children produced \”so far\” is a letter his daughter Nanette wrote to a disgruntled customer, after he had tormented a new waitress at the restaurant where she had just started working, and then he shares the letter with us. Thus he illustrates his first writing rule- \”Find a subject you care about.\” This book is full of such rare, intimately teachable moments, and they add up to something special. Pity the Reader indeed.
ISBN: 9781644210215
Pages: 448