Pity the reader : on writing with style /
"Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much ev...
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New York :
Seven Stories Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | A Seven Stories Press first edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Advice for everyone on writing anything
- About writing fiction
- The prime mover
- Detouring forward
- Dead ahead
- Breakthrough
- Fear of finding a worthy subject or a dearth of death
- The last word on the prime mover or fear not
- Soul growth
- Sanctuary
- What makes great art or art and soul
- Agents of change
- Writers as teachers or the noblest profession
- Vonnegut in class
- Heft and comfort
- Talent
- Diligence
- Pitfalls
- Methodologism
- Materializations
- Propagation
- Regeneration
- The mother of all pearls
- Beginnings
- Plot
- Character
- Prose, the audial
- Prose, the visual
- The joke biz
- Black humor
- Much better stories: re-vision and revision
- Eeny-meeny-miny-moe or choice
- Making a living
- Caring for your piece in the game
- Farting around in life and art
- Love, marriage, and baby carriage
- Better together or community.