The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers compiled by Kurt Vonnegut’s former student.

Here is an entirely fresh side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Obviously he’s provided us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and content and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the instructor. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote needing to about Pity the Reader: On Composing With Style do with the writing art and craft, altogether a recovery, a nourishing expedition. McConnell offers equipped us for the trip, and in these thirty-seven chapters addresses the waterfront of how one American article writer brought himself towards the pinnacle from the writing art, and we can all benefit because of this.

Kurt Vonnegut was mostly of the grandmasters of American books, whose novels continue to influence new decades about the ways that our imaginations can help us to live. Few areas of his contribution never have been plumbed-fourteen novels, selections of his speeches, his essays, his characters, his plays-so this clean watch of him, compiled by a former student, is a bonanza for writers and readers and Vonnegut enthusiasts everywhere.