I almost always approach books like this one with a high-lighter and red pen ready to pull out the gems and become part of the conversation. However, this book really didn't offer me much in the way of any formal note taking or even profound reflections. Upon first reading I only highlighted five expressions (an all-time low for an OCD reader like myself) throughout the entire text. This was probably due in large part to the extreme brevity of the text. I just didn't want these conversations to stop. I finished thinking to myself .. That's it?! ... You gotta be shitting me; two great writers and this is it? ... Oh well. After some reflection I did realize that this book was compelling enough to read it in one, though brief, sitting. And then I realized that I missed the point and that this book had nothing to do with the profound. The outcome of the writer often gives the reader the false impression that the process of writing is as bold as the end product but sometimes this process is anything but profound: it can be tedious, frustrating, and down-rite dull. Like most handshakes, those moments of exhilaration are fleeting and few and far between with those we most admire. So when I shake hands with God I now know not to expect too much. This book gave me the most positive sense of disappointment I can remember in a very long time. To paraphrase a comment Kurt Vonnegut made to Lee Stringer, this book was a wonderful gift in the process of soul building.

I liked this book so much I wrote a blog post about it:
http://let-sleeping-dragons-lie.blogs...

This was definitely a podcast that I've read. Of that, there can be no doubt.

Super quick read (like maybe an hour?). Just nice to sort of read some more words from Vonnegut since he won't be writing to us anymore.

Ostensibly a conversation about writing --but more about living. A great read for anyone who practices the arts.

Short, and thankfully has enough prologues to put the conversations into context. Helpful if you like your authors with a dash of background. Not powerful enough on its own to have inspired me to start reading either Vonnegut (who I already, thankfully, read) or Stringer (who I was formerly totally unfamiliar with). Nice enough to feed the inspirational flames of personal composition initiative. Highly/bizarrely recommended reading - discovered via the coincidence of doing so myself - alongside 'The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard'.

A poignant conversation that introduces you to the writing process. A reminder of how writers are born and not made...just like our life circumstances that make for good stories are accidental.

In two different sessions, authors Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer sit down with a moderator and chat. The excerpts collected in this book fall anywhere from casual chatting between admiring colleagues and similarly casual nuggets of pure artistic wisdom. It's as inspiring as it is brief.

There isn't a ton more to say about this book which is, exactly as it says, a conversation about writing. That's all. That's the whole dang thing. If that's what you expect it to be, you'll have as grand a time as I did.

I am a Vonnegut fan, and I enjoyed reading these interviews. It is a slim volume, though this book does offer some thoughtful advice and words of wisdom to others trying to make a living with words.

A fantastic look into both Stringer and Vonnegut's views on writing. Though I have never read Lee Stringer before, I can tell he is a very gifted, intellectual individual who takes his writing and the writing of others seriously. And Vonnegut is, as always, sarcastic, thought-provoking, and hilarious throughout this little manuscript of conversation. I would suggest anyone who enjoys either one of these authors or has an affinity for discussions about writing read this book. It will be an hour you will not regret.

I think it’s wonderful to be able to have record of a conversation between two really influential voices. While I have been a longtime fan of Kurt, haven’t explored much of Lee’s writing— but I am on the lookout. independent bookstores, fear me. the next copy of GCW is mine.

Oggi voglio raccontarvi del libro che ho appena terminato, si tratta di “Stringere la mano a Dio di Kurt Vonnegut e Lee Stringer” l’ho ascoltato su Storytel nel tragitto per andare al lavoro, è uno dei miei momenti che mi sono ritagliata nelle mie giornate lunghe e impegnative per
Dedicarmi ai miei amici libri, che spesso trascuro per stanchezza o pigrizia.