Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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And So It Goes
I just finished reading And So It Goes, Charles J. Shields’ biography of Kurt Vonnegut, and have mixed feelings and unchecked nostalgia. The mixed feelings part: the book was somewhat lopsided, but I liked it more than most of the reviewers. Like someone reviewed it “and so it goes – into the trash,” and I…
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And so it goes
Well, Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. I’d make the “so it goes” joke, but everyone else already has. When I started writing, there were a couple of writers that I worshipped, that got me rolling for a dead stop and toward thinking about writing fiction. One was Henry Miller, and the other was Vonnegut. I read…