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Caro and Vonnegut in Sagaponack.
(Photo originally appeared in Hamptons Shorts, 1999) |
One sunny day in Sagaponack, renowned political biographer and seasoned interviewer
Robert Caro—who comes to Albany, NY on December 5, 2011—had the tables tuned on him by none other than
Kurt Vonnegut.
Their conversation, with Vonnegut posing questions to Caro (though it was supposed to be the other way around!), delves deeply into the nature of political power, the shared qualities of great fiction and non-fiction, and the pros and cons of writing with typewriters or word processors. And, by the end, they were both barefoot!
Robert Caro, biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, will receive the 2011 Empire State Archives and History Award of the NYS Archives Partnership Trust, on Monday,
December 5, 2011 at 7:30pm at the Egg at the Empire State Plaza. The event is co-sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute.
P.S. This event costs $10. (All other Institute realted events are free!)
