Charles Shields on Kurt Vonnegut, WWII, Dresden, Suicide, and The Great Depression

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 24, my conversation with biographer Charles Shields, author of And So It Goes— Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, available now in trade paperback from St. Martin's Press. It first aired on December 7, 2011. Shields's other books include Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, and I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers). He grew up in the Midwest and taught in a rural school in central Illinois for several years. He has been a reporter for public radio, a journalist, and the author of nonfiction books for young people. He and his wife live near Charlottesville, Virginia. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	All right, everybody. Welcome to the program. This is the Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles.
0:36.9	It's good to be with you. Thanks for tuning in. I hope you're doing all right. I have a new flashback episode for you today, an outtake from episode 24, my conversation with Charles Shields, Kurt Vonnegut's biographer, Harper Lee's biographer.
0:55.7	In this particular episode, I was talking to Charles Shields about his biography entitled,
1:02.9	And So It Goes, Kurt Vonnegut A Life. It was published all the way back in 2011 in hardcover by Henry Holt.
1:12.2	This episode first aired on December 7th, 2011, episode 24.
1:17.6	It's a long time ago.
1:19.3	So my conversation, or a bit of my conversation with Charles Shields, is coming up momentarily.
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