Kurt Vonnegut interview on His Life and Career (1983)

In this interview, Kurt Vonneguticonoclastic writer of science fiction and satirediscusses his family history, how he got his start as an author, his obsession with the betrayal of humankind by science, and his vision of technology gone mad. Delving into the psyches of his characters, he even enters into a dialogue with his fictional alter ego, Kilgore Trout. Dramatizations and excerpts from SlaughterhouseFive, Breakfast of Champions, Cats Cradle, and Deadeye Dick bring the offbeat yet vivid world of Vonneguts stories to life.