If this isn't nice, what is? : advice for the young : the graduation speeches
(2014)
By:
Vonnegut, Kurt
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
815.008/VONNEGUT,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Seven Stories Press, 2014
EDITION
First Seven Stories Press Edition
DESCRIPTION
123 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781609805913 (hardcover), 1609805917 (hardcover), 9781609805913, 1609805917 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions
Baccalaureate -- How to make money and find love! -- Advice to graduating women (that all men should know!) -- How to have something most billionaires don't -- Why you can't stop me from speaking ill of Thomas Jefferson -- How music cures our ills (and there are lots of them) -- Don't despair if you never went to college! -- What the "ghost dance" of the Native Americans and the French painters who led the Cubist movement have in common -- How I learned from a teacher what artists do -- Don't forget where you come from -- Unstuck in time, quotes to ponder