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04041aam a2200517 i 4500 001 4FA46F62AC6111EEB8E173B432ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240106010032 008 201006s2020 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020041507 020 $a 1609809629 020 $a 9781609809621 020 $a 1644210215 020 $a 9781644210215 035 $a (OCoLC)1204300568 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d GO9 $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3572.O5 $b Z89 2020 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Vonnegut, Kurt, $e author. 245 10 $a Pity the reader : $b on writing with style / $c Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell. 250 $a First trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Seven Stories Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xv, 432 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 Reader is 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t Better together or community. $t About writing fiction -- $t The prime mover -- $t Detouring forward -- $t Dead ahead -- $t Breakthrough -- $t Fear of finding a worthy subject or a dearth of death -- $t The last word on the prime mover or fear not -- $t Soul growth -- $t Sanctuary -- $t What makes great art or art and soul -- $t Agents of change -- $t Writers as teachers or the noblest profession -- $t Vonnegut in class -- $t Heft and comfort -- $t Talent -- $t Diligence -- $t Pitfalls -- $t Methodologism -- $t Materializations -- $t Propagation -- $t Regeneration -- $t The mother of all pearls -- $t Beginnings -- $t Plot -- $t Character -- $t Prose, the audial -- $t Prose, the visual -- $t The joke biz -- $t Black humor -- $t Much better stories: re-vision and revision -- $t Eeny-meeny-miny-moe or choice -- $t Making a living -- $t Caring for your piece in the game -- $t Farting around in life and art -- $t Love, marriage, and baby carriage -- $t Better together or community. 600 10 $a Vonnegut, Kurt $x Technique. 600 10 $a Vonnegut, Kurt $v Anecdotes. 600 10 $a Vonnegut, Kurt $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Authorship. 650 6 $a Roman $x Art d'eÌcrire. 600 17 $a Vonnegut, Kurt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00036929 650 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00808608 650 7 $a Fiction $x Authorship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923713 650 7 $a Technique. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01355129 655 2 $a Anecdotes 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423876 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 rvmgf 700 1 $a McConnell, Suzanne, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240106010803.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4FA46F62AC6111EEB8E173B432ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search