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• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose
• DVD Release Date: October 2, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000J3EYCS
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #193,147 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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The United States Secretary of Labor, Alexis Herman, and the president of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney, talk about the current state of the American labor movement and the major issues facing Americans in the workplace. Then, a conversation with Kurt Vonnegut about his new book of stories, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction. Finally, British author Peter Mayle shares the sequel to his bestseller A Year in Provence, titled Encore Provence.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Kurt Vonnegut segment, May 31, 2008

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Vonnegut is a great American original. He deadpans completely Charlie Rose opening remarks which call him a 'genius'. He is not simply a no- nonsense guy. He is also the kind of guy who thinks from left- field and throws his own crazy way of seeing things at you unexpectedly. He has come to talk about a collection of his early small - writing collected and edited by a Peter Reed. Vonnegut had thought that these pieces were juvenalia best forgotten about. But after Reed collected them Vonnegut showed them to his publisher who wanted them. Rose in the course of the conversation does ask the obvious question about whether they are not exploiting the writer's reputation to publish not very good stuff.
Vonnegut has interesting things to say about Writing. He talks about it as a person 'developing their soul'.He speaks about the time when America hungered for short- stories. And he speaks about how now writing workshops on University campuses turn them out but only for local journal consumption. He believes in Writing even when there is no publication possibility. Vonnegut says people should write poems to each other. Charlie Rose speaks about poetry as that which expresses the deepest feelings the person has. A wonderful definition. Vonnegut is urged by Rose to at the age of seventy- six, give the world another novel. But Vonnegut says he has used up all his material. And that it is finite. Rose nonetheless suggests he might do another novel. As it would turn out Vonnegut would produce another volume but it would be non- fiction.
This was a wonderful show , a real conversation between two very good guys.