Kurt Vonnegut: the drawings of science fiction's master artist – in pictures

When he wasn't writing, Kurt Vonnegut doodled. A new book, introduced by his daughter Nanette, brings together some of his finest drawings and his own musings about his art

• Kurt Vonnegut - theguardian.com, Monday 5 May 2014 s

Chapter 1: Self-portrait, February 16, 1985
'I myself make pictures from time to time. I actually had a one-person show of drawings a few years back … in Greenwich Village, not because my pictures were any good but because people had heard of me.'

Chapter 2: Abstraction: Hurricane, October 1, 1985 'The canvas, which is to say the unconscious, considers [the painter's] first stroke, and then it tells the painter's hand how to respond to it with a shape of a certain colour and texture at that point there. And then, if all is going well, the canvas ponders this addition and comes up with further recommendations. The canvas becomes a Ouija board.'

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