Talking Vonnegut

<p> 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 <I>Slaughterhouse-Five</I> 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.</p><p> 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.</p>