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One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations�including his last published interview. During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut�which collects interviews from throughout his career�we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end.From Kurt Vonnegut's Last InterviewIs there another book in you, by chance?No. Look, I�m 84 years old. Writers of fiction have usually done their best work by the time they�re 45. Chess masters are through when they�re 35, and so are baseball players. There are plenty of other people writing. Let them do it.So what�s the old man�s game, then?My country is in ruins. So I�m a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I�m mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That�s why I served in World War II, and that�s why I wrote books.When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?Well, I�d like the guy�or the girl, of course�to put the book down and think, �This is the greatest man who ever lived.�