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Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys
Season 1
Episode 52
In November 1970, Kurt Vonnegut walked into a class room at NYU. He was a guest speaker that day. He’d prepared some handwritten notes on what he wanted to say: there were his thoughts on the art of writing, his childhood, the death of his parents.
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