Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
10 best books like Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (William Rodney Allen): The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing, Venus on the Half-Shell, The Use and Abuse of Literature, And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, Love as Always, Kurt: Vonnegut as I Knew Him, Was This Man a Genius?: Talks With Andy Kaufman, The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
| Author | Colin McGinn |
| ISBN | 0060957603 |
Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the...
| Author | Mark Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 1583225439 |
The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy--and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy,...
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium
| Author | Marc Leeds |
| ISBN | 0313292302 |
"The Vonnegut Encyclopedia" is the authorized, comprehensive, descriptive catalogue of the characters, themes, phrasing, and imagery found in Kurt Vonnegut's novels, short stories, plays, and essays. Starting with the false utopia governed by the ruling technocracy of "Player Piano" (1952)...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0743410580 |
In this elegantly produced, extended conversation celebrating the writing craft, Kurt Vonnegut and acclaimed "Grand Central Winter" author Lee Stringer explore what it means to be a writer -- and what it means to be human. It is an increasingly rare occasion these days to find two writers willing to...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0352398469 |
Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with a cat-like...
| Author | Marjorie Garber |
| ISBN | 0375424342 |
As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.
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| Author | Charles J. Shields |
| ISBN | 0805086935 |
The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by...
| Author | Loree Rackstraw |
| ISBN | 0306818035 |
A loving, intimate memoir from a lifelong friend of Kurt Vonnegut, including photos and never-before-published correspondence
When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ducked into his classroom at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in September of 1965, his jokes drew only weak laughter and a few rolled eyes....
| Author | Julie Hecht |
| ISBN | 0375725202 |
Andy Kaufman defied explanation. But between 1978 and 1979, acclaimed New Yorker short story writer Julie Hecht attempted to arrange an interview with him, hoping to discover how he came to do what he did. The one-hour interview turned into innumerable surreal meetings and phone conversations with...
| Author | Vendela Vida |
| ISBN | 1932416366 |
Believer Books has collected, in alphabetical order, twenty-three conversations and correspondences between much admired writers and the writers they admire. The interviews include favorites gleaned from the pages of the Believer magazine along with previously unpublished conversations....
