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Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

McConnell, Suzanne
Vonnegut, Kurt

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General ReferenceGrammar & StyleFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1644210215
ISBN13: 9781644210215
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Oct 13 2020
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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