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 speak candidly, thoughtfully, and concretely about t...more

"Most diseases can be separated from one’s self ... schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. As a recent college graduate, self-avowed hippie, and son of a counterculture hero, Vonnegut begins to experience increasingly delusional thinking, suicidal...more

Only Vonnegut could make death, and our aversion to it, a comic adventure. Here he skips back and forth between life and the afterlife as if the difference between them were slight. In thirty-some "interviews" - with Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare and, among others, a nonentity who died w...more