Kurt Vonnegut Interview The Writers Workshop @ University of South Carolina

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
  • "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.

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  • @adzytoad
    @adzytoad 2 года назад +85

    If this isn’t nice I don’t know what is

  • @danacoleman4007
    @danacoleman4007 Год назад +8

    What a great conversation and a great piece of history!

  • @Brian-nt1hh
    @Brian-nt1hh 5 месяцев назад +2

    Kurt is a treasure and hilarious to watch/hear

  • @echopathy
    @echopathy 11 месяцев назад +3

    This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

  • @goodun2974
    @goodun2974 3 года назад +9

    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.

  • @goodun2974
    @goodun2974 3 года назад +15

    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".

    • @ianmartinezcassmeyer
      @ianmartinezcassmeyer 3 года назад +2

      I think it was Fitzgerald

    • @justinedse8435
      @justinedse8435 Год назад

      I yawned myself to sleep with Fitzgerald.

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 Год назад +2

      @@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.

    • @kevgh3869
      @kevgh3869 Год назад

      Show me a looser and I'll write you a triumph.

  • @dexterselboy9187
    @dexterselboy9187 4 месяца назад

    imagine someone pitching this today

  • @Gary_Reid_Backing_Tracks
    @Gary_Reid_Backing_Tracks 6 месяцев назад +3

    "Don't put anything in the story that doesn't reveal character or advance the action."

    • @drainel9707
      @drainel9707 Месяц назад

      He was saying that this is BAD advice. Or at least should be taken with a grain of salt

  • @billyalarie929
    @billyalarie929 Год назад +2

    15:35 *AWKWARD STARING FROM THE FUTURE INTENSIFIES*

  • @kevgh3869
    @kevgh3869 Год назад +5

    Anybody know what year?

  • @AAmoroso
    @AAmoroso 3 года назад +6

    14:28 Well, well, well . . . how the turntables . . .

    • @billyalarie929
      @billyalarie929 Год назад

      oh, it still happens..... make no mistake, this hasn't stopped.

  • @goodun2974
    @goodun2974 3 года назад +15

    What year was this?

    • @2Kawusia
      @2Kawusia 2 года назад

      Must be 1980s

    • @darklittlepoet
      @darklittlepoet 2 года назад +8

      @@2Kawusia It's more like 1974 or '75.

    • @dang6877
      @dang6877 2 года назад +3

      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.

    • @slampersand3145
      @slampersand3145 11 месяцев назад

      My best guess is '75-'84

    • @slampersand3145
      @slampersand3145 11 месяцев назад

      The quality is good

  • @tebellokaumana2247
    @tebellokaumana2247 3 года назад +2

    Nice

  • @sunlin894
    @sunlin894 3 года назад +10

    @ 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 ?

    • @AAmoroso
      @AAmoroso 3 года назад

      i wonder the same thing.

    • @mocahill1756
      @mocahill1756 2 года назад +2

      ty. since this isnt dated, i waa guessing.

    • @esb82
      @esb82 2 года назад +4

      @@mocahill1756 Copyright 1980, after the credits. There was another oil crisis in 1979.

    • @miguel-angelcervantes5021
      @miguel-angelcervantes5021 2 года назад

      Yup 👍😁 yuo

    • @hunteressthompson5878
      @hunteressthompson5878 Год назад +5

      Big brained take. It's 'wokeness' and not 40 odd years of neoliberalism

  • @vincecallagher7636
    @vincecallagher7636 3 года назад +7

    You certainly, can’t smoke on tv anymore.

    • @danacoleman4007
      @danacoleman4007 Год назад

      I'm doing it right now

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 11 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @chrishagreen3988
    @chrishagreen3988 10 месяцев назад

    2minutes in. no Vonnegut

  • @ifyoudidntknowyoubetterask
    @ifyoudidntknowyoubetterask 2 года назад +3

    Kurt Vonnegut is overrated

    • @dang6877
      @dang6877 2 года назад

      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.

    • @miguel-angelcervantes5021
      @miguel-angelcervantes5021 2 года назад +13

      I think he's cool 😎👍 he said the truth and it was something i haven't ever forgot , keep it real.

    • @justinedse8435
      @justinedse8435 Год назад +5

      And you are?

    • @marcelodangelo915
      @marcelodangelo915 11 месяцев назад +3

      Not really!

    • @mikescott4195
      @mikescott4195 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@justinedse8435I see the irony of your comment went over your own head