Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell Sourcebooks “Cancel your plans

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” —The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell Sourcebooks “Cancel your plansKurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two go together. It includes rare photos and reproductions, Vonnegut's own account in his own words of how he became a writer and why it matters, and