Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

Pity the Reader is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's advice to aspiring writers, his reflections on writing as a craft and art. It is also a biography of the master of American literature, prepared after the death of Kurt Vonnegut by the writer Susan McConnell, his former student, who was friends with him for many years. Vonnegut's witty and poignant advice drawn from his novels, essays, lectures, a...