Essential Vonnegut Interviews CD
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Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut’s career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be. … More >>
Essential Vonnegut Interviews CD
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It seems to me that Kurt Vonnegut’s work is growing in popularity, and this CD allows us a peek at his point of view in writing some of it.
Rating: 5 / 5
The interviews give priceless insight into the workings of Vonnegut’s mind. As I listened, I kept hoping that the interviews would never end.
Rating: 5 / 5
Even though his latter books seemed to be re-workings of earlier material I bought and enjoyed most every one. This series of interviews provides some insight into changes in Vonnegut over time. Each interview is fairly short and has a focus specific to the year it was taped. Some relate to specific books, others to specific events. Each interview reveals a calm and humorous Vonnegut filled with political satire. The interviewer often provides Vonnegut with insight on the relationships between Vonnegut’s fictional characters and other works and events.
Worth the price.
Rating: 5 / 5
I could be wrong (often have been) but this material is pre-breakfast. The interviewers, whatever their cred, are crap. The last (post breakfast) interview is a good one, as Kurt has a bit less patience. Vonnegut seems to be trying to draw the intelligence out of all the interviewers, but alas, he fails. Still a good period piece. Better to read his books.
Rating: 3 / 5
This CD comprises 3 interviews conducted by noted author, editor, translator, NYU English professor, and Vonnegut confidant Walter James Miller. Covered here are 33 years from 1973’s discussion of Slaughterhouse Five to 1981’s talk about Palm Sunday and ending with 2006’s Man Without A Country. Each interview runs at about 25 minutes, giving the listener approximately 74 minutes of critical analysis and conversation. This CD is a joy, providing valuable insight into Vonnegut the man and the writer. Part of an intended series, future volumes are to cover other Vonnegut novels, interviews culled from the Walter James Miller Audio Archive.
Rating: 5 / 5