[calvinmorrison]

There's a great NPR piece about Vonnegut's daughter - who read and gave feedback on Slaughterhouse-Five.

N VONNEGUT: And I have to say, when I was reading, he would be in the next room. If I laughed, he'd come running in because...

INSKEEP: (Laughter).

N VONNEGUT: ...That is what mattered (laughter).

INSKEEP: He'd want to know which joke landed.

N VONNEGUT: Absolutely, every time.

[satisfice]

I reviewed a couple my father’s later books, at his request, although he didn’t much like my feedback. He thought of me as cold and aggressive, while he was trying to write about transcendent love.

But one phrase from a letter of mine made it into One, and that was exciting.