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...Kurt Vonnegut Jr. suggested yesterday that "In the history of art, the people who succeed in later life spent their youths being rejected again and again...
...Vonnegut's succinct 45-second address climaxed an emotional hour-long vigil in the upper Seminar Room at Warren House, English Department headquarters, where a couple hundred aspiring novelists turned up to apply for the 15 places in author Vonnegut's English V writing course. After a 20-second pause, during which the assembled absorbed the preceding sentence, Vonnegut added. "If your love life is in a shambles and everything else is going wrong, this will be just one more thing...
...amidst our intolerable political problems, he was writing about moonships and skin-head technicians. Mailer said because they interested him. It was not a popular answer, he had side-stepped a political question with a non-political answer. But the appropriate literary response was not to become a seedier Vonnegut. Questions of the political justifications of art, particularly in a highly politicized time, become the only questions, and writers are left stranded between their literary impulses and political sympathies...
...selling phrase was "black humor." Some of the best books of the '60s came out ghastly-funny, as if novelists were facing nuclear-age madness, crossed eyeballs to crossed eyeballs: Terry Southern in his underrated little masterpiece The Magic Christian, John Barth in The Sot-weed Factor, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in Mother Night, Saul Bellow in Herzog...
...Kurt Vonnegut tells about some secretaries he knows who live in New York, alone, somewhere in the jungle, and carry around Valley of the Dolls. (imagine 900 pages of Jaqueline Susan), in the hope that some man will walk up to them and say. "Wow, you're reading that too. huh? Where do you want to go for lunch?" I guess you just don't accidentally bump into someone twice in New York...