Best known as one of America´s most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. If This Isn´t Nice, What Is? collects the speeches and words of wisdom Vonnegut has shared with new graduates over the years. This much-expanded edition now includes a total of 15 of Vonnegut´s speeches. In each, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn´t heavy-handed, pretentious or glib, but funny, serious and joyful.