Kurt Vonnegut Interview The Writers Workshop @ University of South Carolina
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2021
- "Young writers are too polite....You have to be mean to characters; you have to make the worst thing happen." Vonnegut has an original solution to the problem for today's aspiring writers; this he offers along with a timeless formula for short-story writing and a variety of reflections from his own personal perspective.
If this isn’t nice I don’t know what is
What a great conversation and a great piece of history!
This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
Referencing to Vonneguts' "write me a western; write me a detective story", either Faulkner or F Scott Fitzgerald once said "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy".
I think it was Fitzgerald
I yawned myself to sleep with Fitzgerald.
@@justinedse8435 , I'm not a Fitzgerald fan myself ---- he was kind of an elitist who wrote about rich people's problems. I can still appreciate a good quote with a grain of truth in it. Conversely, I wasn't particularly fond of the writings of Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald's verbal sparring partner. " "The rich are different from you and I", said Fitzgerald. "Yeah, they have more money" said Hemingway.
Show me a looser and I'll write you a triumph.
Referencing the quip at 3:40, "Just when you think that you've been gypped/ the Bearded Lady comes and does a double back flip/ you run off and join the circus/ yeah you just let that pony ride....." from the song "Buffalo River Home" by John Hiatt.
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Yes 👍 i am nothing 💘 love you too 😘
Anybody know what year?
So it goes.
Nice
15:35 *AWKWARD STARING FROM THE FUTURE INTENSIFIES*
What year was this?
Must be 1980s
@@2Kawusia It's more like 1974 or '75.
I had both Fox and Kurt as teachers. Fox had left Iowa and was in S.C. at the University there. I think this was probably around 1980 or even mid 80s.
My best guess is '75-'84
The quality is good
14:28 Well, well, well . . . how the turntables . . .
oh, it still happens..... make no mistake, this hasn't stopped.
@ around minute 17:00 or so Kurt makes reference to "as soon as we run out of gas...." he's talking about the US gasoline crisis - 1974 - 6 or so around that time. The Aiyatolah , hostage crisis, Munich and the Olympics, government chees lines, it was around these times our family & many others drank powdered milk. So the gloom & pessimism surrounding publishing & being a writer was understandable during the 1970s recessions and inflation crisis. Are we headed there again....and will another Stephen King take over the writing world? Or is the woke culture too hopeless to reinvigorate the use of imagination ?
i wonder the same thing.
ty. since this isnt dated, i waa guessing.
@@mocahill1756 Copyright 1980, after the credits. There was another oil crisis in 1979.
Yup 👍😁 yuo
Big brained take. It's 'wokeness' and not 40 odd years of neoliberalism
You certainly, can’t smoke on tv anymore.
I'm doing it right now
Jon Stewart once asked Kurt Vonnegut: "you're a humanist, a man of words and letters ---- how does a man such as yourself survive the Bush administration?" "Well, smoking helps", Kurt replied.
2minutes in. no Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is overrated
Hahahaha. You're overrated and we haven't even heard of you. Vonnegut was a fine writer. What have you done. Nothing, right? So, can it.
I think he's cool 😎👍 he said the truth and it was something i haven't ever forgot , keep it real.
And you are?
Not really!
@@justinedse8435I see the irony of your comment went over your own head