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Of Ghost Shirts and Gizmos | Phillips on Player Piano

Anthropology in Vonnegut’s Player Piano Sarah D. Phillips   It is widely known that after the war Kurt Vonnegut studied on the GI Bill for a master’s degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. He struggled in the program and never wrote an accepted thesis, though the department awarded him the MA degree a full 25 years later, …