Interview with Kurt Vonnegut
With permission from HAMPTON SHORTS; Fiction Plus from the Hamptons and the east end; volume IV 1999. HAMPTON SHORTS is a not-for-profit literary magazine that puts out one book each year. Copies can be obtained by contacting HAMPTON SHORTS at either HamptonShorts@Hamptons.com or at P.O. Box 1229 Watermill, N.Y. 11976 or at (631) 537-2862.
The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power
Robert
Caro and Kurt Vonnegut
One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack. We had called Kurt, earlier; and asked to interview him, whereupon he said, “I’d rather interview Bob Caro.” Needless to say, we were extremely pleased when Caro agreed. Caro is the author of magisterial biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, and the interview promised to be most interesting.