Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

  • 12h 1m 47s
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
  • Recorded Books, Inc.
  • 2019

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and listeners written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student.

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 everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition. McConnell has outfitted us for the journey, and in these 37 chapters covers the waterfront of how one American writer brought himself to the pinnacle of the writing art, and we can all benefit as a result.

Kurt Vonnegut was one of the few grandmasters of American literature, whose novels continue to influence new generations about the ways in which our imaginations can help us to live. Few aspects of his contribution have not been plumbed - 14 novels, collections of his speeches, his essays, his letters, his plays - so this fresh view of him, written by a former student, is a bonanza for writers and listeners and Vonnegut fans everywhere.

In this Audiobook

  • Chapter 1 - Advice for Everyone on Writing Anything
  • Chapter 2 - About Writing Fiction
  • Chapter 3 - The Prime Mover
  • Chapter 4 - Detouring Forward
  • Chapter 5 - Dead Ahead
  • Chapter 6 - Breakthrough
  • Chapter 7 - Fear of Finding a Worthy Subject or A Dearth of Death
  • Chapter 8 - The Last Word on the Prime Mover or Fear Not
  • Chapter 9 - Soul Growth
  • Chapter 10 - Sanctuary
  • Chapter 11 - What Makes Great Art or Art and Soul
  • Chapter 12 - Agents of Change
  • Chapter 13 - Writers as Teachers or The Noblest Profession
  • Chapter 14 - Vonnegut in Class
  • Chapter 15 - Heft and Comfort
  • Chapter 16 - Talent
  • Chapter 17 - Diligence
  • Chapter 18 - Pitfalls
  • Chapter 19 - Methodologism
  • Chapter 20 - Materializations
  • Chapter 21 - Propagation
  • Chapter 22 - Regeneration
  • Chapter 23 - The Mother of All Pearls
  • Chapter 24 - Beginnings
  • Chapter 25 - Plot
  • Chapter 26 - Character
  • Chapter 27 - Prose, the Audial
  • Chapter 28 - Prose, the Visual
  • Chapter 29 - The Joke Biz
  • Chapter 30 - Black Humor
  • Chapter 31 - Much Better Stories: Re-vision and Revision
  • Chapter 32 - Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Moe or Choice
  • Chapter 33 - Making a Living
  • Chapter 34 - Caring for Your Piece in the Game
  • Chapter 35 - Farting Around in Life and Art
  • Chapter 36 - Love, Marriage, and Baby Carriage
  • Chapter 37 - Better Together or Community
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