Kurt Vonnegut Interview The Writers Workshop @ University of South Carolina

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3 жыл бұрын

"Young writers are too polite....You have to be mean to characters; you have to make the worst thing happen." Vonnegut has an original solution to the problem for today's aspiring writers; this he offers along with a timeless formula for short-story writing and a variety of reflections from his own personal perspective.

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@adzytoad Жыл бұрын

If this isn’t nice I don’t know what is

@danacoleman4007 8 ай бұрын

What a great conversation and a great piece of history!

@echopathy 2 ай бұрын

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

@goodun2974 2 жыл бұрын

Referencing the quip at 3:40, "Just when you think that you've been gypped/ the Bearded Lady comes and does a double back flip/ you run off and join the circus/ yeah you just let that pony ride....." from the song "Buffalo River Home" by John Hiatt.

@miguel-angelcervantes5021 Жыл бұрын

Jijiji

@miguel-angelcervantes5021 Жыл бұрын

Yes 👍 i am nothing 💘 love you too 😘

@goodun2974 2 жыл бұрын

Referencing to Vonneguts' "write me a western; write me a detective story", either Faulkner or F Scott Fitzgerald once said "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy".

@ianmartinezcassmeyer 2 жыл бұрын

I think it was Fitzgerald

@justinedse8435 7 ай бұрын

I yawned myself to sleep with Fitzgerald.

@goodun2974 7 ай бұрын

@@justinedse8435 , I'm not a Fitzgerald fan myself ---- he was kind of an elitist who wrote about rich people's problems. I can still appreciate a good quote with a grain of truth in it. Conversely, I wasn't particularly fond of the writings of Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald's verbal sparring partner. " "The rich are different from you and I", said Fitzgerald. "Yeah, they have more money" said Hemingway.

@kevgh3869 4 ай бұрын

Show me a looser and I'll write you a triumph.

@kevgh3869 4 ай бұрын

Anybody know what year?

@AAmoroso 2 жыл бұрын

14:28 Well, well, well . . . how the turntables . . .

@billyalarie929 7 ай бұрын

oh, it still happens..... make no mistake, this hasn't stopped.

@tebellokaumana2247 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@billyalarie929 7 ай бұрын

15:35 *AWKWARD STARING FROM THE FUTURE INTENSIFIES*

@goodun2974 2 жыл бұрын

What year was this?

@2Kawusia Жыл бұрын

Must be 1980s

@darklittlepoet Жыл бұрын

@@2Kawusia It's more like 1974 or '75.

@dang6877 Жыл бұрын

I had both Fox and Kurt as teachers. Fox had left Iowa and was in S.C. at the University there. I think this was probably around 1980 or even mid 80s.

@slampersand3145 3 ай бұрын

My best guess is '75-'84

@slampersand3145 3 ай бұрын

The quality is good

@mikescott4195 16 күн бұрын

So it goes.

@sunlin894 2 жыл бұрын

@ around minute 17:00 or so Kurt makes reference to "as soon as we run out of gas...." he's talking about the US gasoline crisis - 1974 - 6 or so around that time. The Aiyatolah , hostage crisis, Munich and the Olympics, government chees lines, it was around these times our family & many others drank powdered milk. So the gloom & pessimism surrounding publishing & being a writer was understandable during the 1970s recessions and inflation crisis. Are we headed there again....and will another Stephen King take over the writing world? Or is the woke culture too hopeless to reinvigorate the use of imagination ?

@AAmoroso 2 жыл бұрын

i wonder the same thing.

@mocahill1756 Жыл бұрын

ty. since this isnt dated, i waa guessing.

@esb82 Жыл бұрын

@miguel-angelcervantes5021 Жыл бұрын

Yup 👍😁 yuo

@hunteressthompson5878 10 ай бұрын

Big brained take. It's 'wokeness' and not 40 odd years of neoliberalism

@vincecallagher7636 2 жыл бұрын

You certainly, can’t smoke on tv anymore.

@danacoleman4007 8 ай бұрын

I'm doing it right now

@goodun2974 3 ай бұрын

Jon Stewart once asked Kurt Vonnegut: "you're a humanist, a man of words and letters ---- how does a man such as yourself survive the Bush administration?" "Well, smoking helps", Kurt replied.