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It's Lit!

Inside the Absurdist Mind of Kurt Vonnegut

Season 2 Episode 28 | 15m 11s

It can be said that there are two types of fiction writers - those who take a backseat and let their work take the spotlight, and those who are as iconic as their work, sometimes even more so. But maybe there’s a third type - a type of writer whose complex persona is so intertwined with their fiction - that to ignore them as a person would be to ignore their work entirely.

Aired: 01/26/22
Made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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