Kurt Vonnegut Interview The Writers Workshop @ University of South Carolina 

If this isn’t nice I don’t know what is

What a great conversation and a great piece of history!

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

Referencing to Vonneguts' "write me a western; write me a detective story", either Faulkner or F Scott Fitzgerald once said "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy".

Kurt is a treasure and hilarious to watch/hear

Referencing the quip at 3:40, "Just when you think that you've been gypped/ the Bearded Lady comes and does a double back flip/ you run off and join the circus/ yeah you just let that pony ride....." from the song "Buffalo River Home" by John Hiatt.

"Don't put anything in the story that doesn't reveal character or advance the action."

Anybody know what year?

What year was this?

imagine someone pitching this today

14:28 Well, well, well . . . how the turntables . . .

15:35 *AWKWARD STARING FROM THE FUTURE INTENSIFIES*

Nice

@ around minute 17:00 or so Kurt makes reference to "as soon as we run out of gas...." he's talking about the US gasoline crisis - 1974 - 6 or so around that time. The Aiyatolah , hostage crisis, Munich and the Olympics, government chees lines, it was around these times our family & many others drank powdered milk. So the gloom & pessimism surrounding publishing & being a writer was understandable during the 1970s recessions and inflation crisis. Are we headed there again....and will another Stephen King take over the writing world? Or is the woke culture too hopeless to reinvigorate the use of imagination ?

You certainly, can’t smoke on tv anymore.

2minutes in. no Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is overrated