A review by valtimke
Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing by Kurt Vonnegut

5.0

You'll only get as much out of this as you're looking for, but even that has its limits. If you're looking for some secret, surefire trick to writing something good, you're out of luck. But you may just find some tidbits you're probably able to take with you on your trip to forever. If you enjoy works like Stringer's and Vonnegut's, this is a great inside to topics like: why write? to what audience? what's the greatest accomplishment? It also has some other interesting, rambly questions like: if you could go back to Earth or sleep eternally, which would you choose?

I think I took a lot from this. I went into this only having read Vonnegut's work, but I'm glad I got to meet Stringer and I'm intrigued by Grand Central Winter. I'll pick it up in the future, especially because Vonnegut praised it. I'll read anything and everything he ever praised.