the back and write all day. he lost his shirt. or was her was not doing well in 1965 when he went to iowa for the iowa writers workshop. jump ahead a few years when he swings into my view and view the view of the generation. it is 1969, and i'm a college student at the university of illinois. draft eligible, facing the war in vietnam. like so many of the young men my age, our fathers had fought in world war ii. so we were facing truly a moral dilemma. would we serve? would be by? what we felt that we couldn't? what we do instead? suddenly, breaking like a storm over us was slaughterhouse five and 1969. we embrace it. here we were feeling the welded and disoriented, not knowing what we would do, and in slaughterhouse five, it is a pilgrim. someone trying to be a good soldier who doesn't know what's happening, and he suffers from a strange phenomenon where he ricochets in time. looking back now, we know that it was probably a manifestation of postherpetic stress disorder, which was undiagnosed at that time. but billy pilgrim is suddenly back in the battle. then he is back in front of his office, and then he is somewhere

years his junior who in turn was waiting for the writer william price to divorce his wife so that they could marry. this job and the respected iowa writers workshop did not student he was going to leave it and compensate himself for his trouble by coming on strong with sarah. on the other hand, it reminded that he was just an old booze hound on the hunt for affection. she was just a girl, and he was old enough to be her father. she needed him like a case of shingles. no, started in media recite that, the middle of the man's life. kurt vonnegut was not famous, was not popular until he was almost 50 years old. for the first part of his writing life the majority of it, kurt vonnegut was a free-lance writer who was writing fiction for popular magazines like ladies home journal, saturday evening post, and just barely making it. he had a large family of six children, they live in a big ramshackle house on cape cod. curt was living paycheck to paycheck. try and put food on the table. he not only wrote stories but tried teaching special education for his semester the did not go all the well. he received an inherited from his father and decided that he sh

so he was missing a medal and it was not until he arrived at the iowa writers workshop and 65 that he finally broke through the structure of this novel, but he suddenly with us because of his interaction with other fiction writers that he could do something very different and exactly what he wanted to do. see tranter is kind of maroon.on cape cod with his failing as a freelance writer and it very little interaction with other writers and professionals. admin and a few other freelance writers like himself, but nobody who was really on the cusp of anything new in american fiction. when you go to the i/o writers workshop, he was now some alternate donald justice in vanceboro share the people making names for themselves and the writing of novels and what they told, you can do whatever you want. you don't have to abide either conventions of fiction. you can go in the direction you want. so kurt broke free of the chronological border he'd been trying to tell the story and instead told it as a private word who had no idea what was going on. a private who was just trying to serve. a private w

so he was missing a medal and it was not until he arrived at the iowa writers workshop and 65 that he finally broke through the structure of this novel, but he suddenly with us because of his interaction with other fiction writers that he could do something very different and exactly what he wanted to do. see tranter is kind of maroon.on cape cod with his failing as a freelance writer and it very little interaction with other writers and professionals. admin and a few other freelance writers like himself, but nobody who was really on the cusp of anything new in american fiction. when you go to the i/o writers workshop, he was now some alternate donald justice in vanceboro share the people making names for themselves and the writing of novels and what they told, you can do whatever you want. you don't have to abide either conventions of fiction. you can go in the direction you want. so kurt broke free of the chronological border he'd been trying to tell the story and instead told it as a private word who had no idea what was going on. a private who was just trying to serve. a private w

it's not unusual to be able, for example, to tell a short story that came out of the university of iowa writers' workshop. because there's certain hallmarks of it. and, you know, there's great value in having creative work come from all segments of the society. so, but that -- and i do think that copyright right now does provide the incentive that it's supposed to. i think if there were no copyright, there would be a whole lot of people who would write anyway. but they would not as eagerly write the second and the third and the fourth book when they discovered that there was to reward in it. no reward in it. i mean, this is an argument back and forth on where you, and be where you should strike the balance. but i have to say that, um, you know, if "clueless" were to be written during jane austen's lifetime, i think that's, that's much different than, you know, i saw a production of "invisible man." a performance of "invisible man" down at the court theater in hyde park. and i can criticize the production, but it had been many years that the ellison estate resisted having "invisible man "dramatized. and i