but that's not unique to vonnegut. what was unique to vonnegut, though, was a couple of things that happened to him directly for which he never understood why these things happened and how he should adjust to them. for one thing, when he was about to go to college, he had done well in high school being a high school journalist. that made him popular. he found his niche working for the high school newspaper. and right when he was about to go to college, his elder brother who was at mit studying physics intervened and said, listen -- talking to their parents -- he can't go into english, he can't go into journalism. the liberal arts are ornamental. that's no way to earn a living. the way of the future is technology and science. that's where the new frontier is, and that's what he should go into as well. kurt was very bright, and he did have an aptitude for science. i saw his high school report card. he had a high iq, and he got an a+ in physics, but he didn't want to go into science, so when his parents forced him to go t

it's because kurt vonnegut was at famous, walls and popular on how he was almost 50-years-old. for the first part of his writing life the majority of it in fact, kurt vonnegut was a free-lance writer who was writing fiction for popular magazines like collier's and blease home journal, the saturday evening post, and just barely making it. he has a large family, six children, they lived in a grand house on cape cod and curt was living from paycheck to paycheck to try to put food on the table he not only wrote stories but he tried teaching special-education for a semester and that didn't go all that well. then he received an inheritance from his father and decided that he should go into selling automobiles on the cape because he thought it was an ideal job for a writer. he put the new cars in the show room people come and body and you can sit in the back and write all day. so, curt wasn't doing well in 1965 when he went to iowa for the writer's workshop. now, a jump ahead just a few years to when he sort of swings into my view and into the view of a generation. its 1969 and i am a

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>> that's curt vonnegut, my husband. you've just met the fellow, i'm sure. >> he doesn't have any shoes on here. >> that's true, and he's wearing his pajamas. that's in our house. what's interesting about that photograph to me is it reflect a ritual for kurt. 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 a cup of strong black coffee. for tennessee williams it was a glass of wine. for george simmonon, he actually went to a doctor for a check-up before he started to write. he had his blood pressure taken and his heart listened to, and then he went into total exclusion, 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