VONNEGUT

VONNEGUT HAS A NEW BOOK OUT [story] I saw him once on the street at the corner of Lexington and 55th in Manhattan.  A curly taller Mark Twain he is.  Swimming in his clothes.  About three thirty in the afternoon as I recall.  I looked down and he had a ping pong paddle in his hand, lightly tapping it against his thigh.  Said he was late for this regular three thirty game. You have to have priorities. I never said a word.  I love New York.

MORE BRUSHES with fame, brush offs and more at Shakespeare's Sister.

Comments

[catherine]

I thought you lived someplace else. You used to live in NYC, correct?

[The Heretik]

NY native, Poverty Barn Catherine. Part of me still is there. If there is one thing Gotham gives, it must be random small insanities and joys, often in the same block you walk down.

[Agi T. Prop]

I'm currently reading Slaughterhouse-Five. Check out Vonnegut on PBS/NOW:

http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/vonnegut.html

[libbyspencer]

My favorite Luddite. I had near encounter myself in the Happy Valley.

[Kenneth Quinnell]

That is the perfect Vonnegut story. He's long been one of my idols and stories like that just help support my feelings. ATP, after you've finished Slaughterhouse, I've got a paper that analyzes it: http://quinnell.us/literature/reviews/vonnegutperlman.html