{"product_id":"pity-the-reader-on-writing-with-style-9781644210215","title":"Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style","description":"\"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. McConnell has outfitted us for the journey, and in these 37 chapters covers the waterfront of how one American writer brought himself to the pinnacle of the writing art--and we can all benefit as a result\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16141100\"\u003eKurt Vonnegut\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-6906521\"\u003eSuzanne McConnell\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644210215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644210215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REF\"\u003eReference\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REF015000\"\u003ePersonal \u0026amp; Practical Guides\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LAN\"\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LAN028000\"\u003eStyle Manuals\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO002000\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor, editor, and writing teacher \u003cb\u003eSuzanne McConnell\u003c\/b\u003e was a student of Kurt Vonnegut's at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1965 to 1967, when Vonnegut--along with Nelson Algren and other notable authors--was in residence and finishing his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e. Vonnegut and McConnell became friends, and stayed so for the rest of his life. She has published short memoirs of him in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Writer's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, and led a panel at the 2014 AWP conference titled \"Vonnegut's Legacy: Writing About War and Other Debacles of the Human Condition.\" McConnell taught writing at Hunter College for thirty years, and she serves as the fiction editor of the \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her fiction also won first prize in the \u003ci\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2015 Fiction Contest, first prize in \u003ci\u003ePrime Number Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e2014 Awards for Flash Fiction, and second prize in \u003ci\u003eSo to Speak\u003c\/i\u003e's 2008 Fiction Contest. She lives in New York City and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with her husband, the artist Gary Kuehn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt Vonnegut\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the few grandmasters of American literature, whose novels continue to influence new generations about the ways in which our imaginations can help us to live. Few aspects of his contribution have not been plumbed--fourteen novels, a collection of his speeches, essays, letters, a play--so this fresh self-portrait, written with the aid of a former student, is a bonanza for writers and readers everywhere.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45681955766411,"sku":"9781644210215","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_609dec8c-eca4-4140-9a3d-d9a18d140315.jpg?v=1772209497","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/pity-the-reader-on-writing-with-style-9781644210215","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}