You may recall the short Q&A I did with Dan Wakefield, editor of Kurt Vonnegut: Letters. The Q&A was only one part of our conversation. I also shared a story with Wakefield about how I manged to get a novel signed by Kurt Vonnegut. feel a little embarrassed now about what I did, but Wakefield assured me that Vonnegut probably did get a kick out of it and that I should share the story with others. So here’s the story of how I managed to get my signed Vonnegut:
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Kurt Vonnegut
Dan Wakefield was a longtime friend of the legendary American author Kurt Vonnegut: a writer whose brilliant fiction straddled the lines between science fiction, mainstream literature and social satire for half a dozen decades. Vonnegut’s best-known contribution to literature remains the time-travel novel/memoir Slaughterhouse Five, but this is only one small part of his writing [...]
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A Missouri public school board voted four to zero to remove two books out of a proposed three from the library of Republic High School Monday. One of them was Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction novel Slaughterhouse Five. Four members were absent for the late evening vote.
The 1969 novel uses a plot involving time travel and [...]
The New York Times has a rather nice piece about the opening of the new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in downtown Indianapolis. Although Vonnegut lived in New York for the latter part of his life, his roots were in the midwest, and the new museum honors this. Visitors can see Vonnegut’s old typewriter, paintings and [...]
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