kurt vonnegut

An interesting read about Kurt Vonnegut Jr. written in two voices, one from the daughter of a good friend, and the other from a friend who was writing under the influence of a brain tumor. http://www.ninthletter.com/featured_artist/artist/26/ It reads a bit like his writing and gives some...

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/04/10/vonnegut-collection.html Personally I'm always a little wary of posthumous releases. I suspect if the author was happy with the work he/she would have released it while still alive. Regardless, I'm sure I'll buy this the week it comes out.

In 1959, the year I joined the Baha’i Faith, the year I turned 15, Kurt Vonnegut published his second novel The Sirens of Titan. By the late 1960s this novel had become a cult-book of the counter-culture. The genre is novel, sci-fi, space-opera, black humour, satire and fabulation. The...

Far sadder than the firing of an American racist is the passing of a great American writer (Kurt Vonnegut) and a great American actor (Roscoe Lee Brown): and

The story just broke in the NY Times. I enjoyed much of his writing. Recently re-read "Breakfast of Champions." What a hoot. R.I.P.