>> guest: that is kurt vonnegut my husband who you just met, the fellow hoosier. c-span: he doesn't have any shoes on here. >> guest: that's true and he's wearing his pajamas. that's in our house in sagaponack. what's interesting about that photograph to me is that reflects the ritual for curt. it happens to be doing the new york times crossword puzzle in ink. he is really incapable of writing before he has done that puzzle. and i think that a lot of writers have rituals and a lot of the writers talk about these rituals. for most of them, it's just this cup of strong black coffee. for tennessee williams, it was a glass of wine. for george simenon, he actually went to a doctor for a check-up before he started to write, and he had his blood pressure taken and his heart listened to. and then he went into total seclusion, like a monk, for 11 days. he didn't come out. he didn't do anything else but write. so rituals interest me. i think the most important aspect of this book is that it's not just photographs. i think that what makes it interesting to people is that eac