Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview

A new series of pocket-sized interview collections, featuring conversations with some of the most iconic writers and thinkers of our timePlt;bPgt;One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview. Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with VonnegutP#8212;which collects interviews from throughout his careerP#8212;we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;uPgt;Plt;bPgt;From Kurt VonnegutP#39;s last interviewPlt;/bPgt;Plt;/uPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Is there another book in you, by chance?Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;No. Look, IP#8217;m 84 years old. Writers of fiction have usually done their best work by the time theyP#8217;re 45. Chess masters are through when theyP#8217;re 35, and so are baseball players. There are plenty of other people writing. Let them do it.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;So whatP#8217;s the old manP#8217;s game, then?Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;My country is in ruins. So IP#8217;m a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. IP#8217;m mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. ThatP#8217;s why I served in World War II, and thatP#8217;s why I wrote books.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Well, IP#8217;d like the guyP#8212;or the girl, of courseP#8212;to put the book down and think, P#8220;This is the greatest man who ever lived.P#8221;