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1) New York in the fifties

Author

Wakefield, Dan

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence

Pub. Date

1992.

Language

English

2) Kurt Vonnegut: the making of a writer

Author

Wakefield, Dan

Publisher

Triangle Square, an imprint of Seven Stories Press

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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"Dan Wakefield's biography of Kurt Vonnegut: "You could say the same for his stories, novels, and memoirs. And for the way he spoke. He said things that other people thought but didn't say, or hadn't dared to think, but recognized as true when they heard it. The truth is often shocking, he wrote, because we hear it so seldomly.""--

3) If this isn't nice, what is?: the graduation speeches and other words to live by

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Pub. Date

Language

English

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"Best known as one of our most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. He himself never graduated college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occasion to savor on his own behalf. Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches...