Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

The audiobook Pity the Reader is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's advice to aspiring writers, his reflections on writing as a craft and an art. It is also a biography of the master of American literature, prepared after Kurt Vonnegut's death by writer Susan McConnell, a former student of his who had been his friend for many years. Vonnegut's witty and incisive references drawn from his novels, essays, lectures, articles, interviews, and letters, with detailed commentary by Susan McConnell, will inspire anyone who has chosen the writing path. They will help you understand what to write about and for whom, where to find stories, and how not to get lost in the maelstrom of creative stupor and fear. "Have Pity on the Reader" is a useful guide for aspiring authors and a great gift for all fans of Kurt Vonnegut's work.