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"That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared.The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope,
4th earl of Chesterfield,
1749
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 80 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 158322002X
Release Date: Jan 4, 2002
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In this elegantly produced, extended conversation celebrating the writing craft, Kurt Vonnegut and acclaimed Grand Central Winter author Lee Stringer explore what it means to be a writer—and what it means to be human.
It is an increasingly rare occasion these days to find two writers willing to speak candidly, thoughtfully, and concretely about the intersection of life and art. And that these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer makes Like Shaking Hands with God a truly historic and joyous occasion. The setting is a bookstore in New York City in October 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut and Stringer jump into the aesthetic fray, taking up humanity, writing, salvation, art, and the challenge of living, day to day.
As Vonnegut said, "It was a magical evening." A passionate and inspiring discourse between two extraordinary writers, Like Shaking Hands with God is a book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing things down can be so much more important than the amount of memory in our computers.
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"The primary benefit of practicing any art...is that it enables one's soul to grow. So the proliferation of creative writing courses is surely a good thing. Most came into being in response to demands by college students...that their courses make more use of their natural impulses to be creative in ways that were not emphatically practical."
— "Writers on Writing," The New York Times, May 24, 1999 —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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