Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

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.