Like Shaking Hands wtih God: A Conversation About Writing - Hardcover

Stringer, Lee; Vonnegut, Kurt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158322002X ISBN 13: 9781583220023

Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

Features photographs and transcripts of a seminar hosted by the authors on October 1, 1998 in which they spoke about the process of writing, being a writer, and what it means to be human.

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About the Authors

Lee Stringer is the former editor of Street News.

Kurt Vonnegut is among the few grandmasters of 20th century American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does. His works include Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos, and Welcome to the Monkey House. He is the author, most recently, of God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was among the few grandmasters of 20th-Century American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does now. Vonnegut's other books from Seven Stories Press include, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God, and the national bestseller, A Man without a Country. Lee Stringer lived on the streets in the '80s and '90s. His first book, Grand Central Winter, was an international bestseller in 1998. He serves on the board of Mamaronek Libraries and Project Renewal. In addition to other memoirs, Stringer's writing has appeared in The Nation, New York Times, and Newsday.

KURT VONNEGUT was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does now. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 11, 1922, and died on April 11, 2007, in New York City. 


LEE STRINGER's journey from childhood homelessness in the ’60s, to adult homelessness in the ’80s, to his present career as a writer and lecturer, as told in Sleepaway School and Grand Central Winter, is one of the great odysseys of contemporary American life and letters. Stringer, the only board member of Project Renewal who is also a former patient of the facility, has demonstrated that writers are made, not born. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award and, in 2005, a Lannan Foundation Residency. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York, where he also serves on the board of the Mamaroneck Public Libraries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158322002X
• ISBN 13: 9781583220023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80