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Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be.
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“Vonnegut happily sidesteps the academic blather and, deft and plainspoken as always, delivers his unique brand of humor-laced cynicism with freshness and charm.”
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" 3 half hour interviews spanning 3 decades! It is great if you love Vonnegut, but it is way too short to be life changing! Totally worth the time to hear him reflect on his work over the years as well as the current state of affairs in the world. "
— John, 2/4/2012 -
" 3 half hour interviews spanning 3 decades! It is great if you love Vonnegut, but it is way too short to be life changing! Totally worth the time to hear him reflect on his work over the years as well as the current state of affairs in the world. "
— John, 6/18/2010
About Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” with Cat’s Cradle in 1963.
About Kurt Vonnegut
Walter James Miller (1918–2010) was an American literary critic, playwright, poet, professor, and translator. He worked on more than sixty books in his lifetime, including four landmark annotated translations of novels by Jules Verne. He taught at Hofstra University, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Colorado State University, and for over forty years at New York University. During his time at NYU, he created and taught a popular “Great Books” course and received the NYU Alumni Great Teacher Award in 1980. For fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, his Peabody Award–winning show Reader’s Almanac was a fixture on the New York public radio station WNYC. For his radio show, he interviewed many established and rising authors and poets, including Nadine Gordimer, Alan Ginsberg, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. His verse drama Joseph in the Pit was produced off-Broadway in 1993 and 2002.