The estate of Kurt Vonnegut joined a lawsuit against banning his most famous book. "Slaughterhouse-Five" is about a World War II veteran like Vonnegut himself. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) KURT ...
On behalf of the Kurt Vonnegut Estate, authors Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins, and Amy Reed, and two anonymous high school student plaintiffs with the ACLU of Utah filed a complaint on January 6 to ...
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Aliza Aufrichtig ...
If you’re surprised that Kurt Vonnegut was an unhappy man, you’re not paying attention. But the response to And So It Goes, Charles J. Shields’s Vonnegut biography, indicates that a whole lot of ...
NEW YORK — In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound. Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key ...
Scattered across the pages of Kurt Vonnegut's novels are the occasional satirical doodles that offer breaks in the text — a headstone with a bittersweet inscription in "Slaughterhouse-Five," or an ...
Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The staunchly anti-war book first resonated with readers during the Vietnam War era, later becoming a staple in ...