BBC The Sunday Feature: New Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
Listen (click) HERE about BBC World Service’s Paul Henley discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s work and untold stories.
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Listen (click) HERE about BBC World Service’s Paul Henley discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s work and untold stories.
Cooper Harriss The company line on Cat’s Cradle concerns Vonnegut’s invention of a religion—Bokononism—to satirize his contemporary vagaries of knowledge and authority. See the cat? See the cradle? Religion is a lie, the story goes; it’s not true but an invented dimension of human cultures. Like the lies we tell our children, religion arouses fear, provides comfort, establishes meaning, …
Read HERE about how Kurt Vonnegut’s fifth novel became a NYC musical production and has led to the recent release of the musical’s 17 track cast recording.
Like Salo University, The Vonnegut Review is a literary project and online hub for everything Kurt Vonnegut. Read HERE about how Vonnegut’s novel, Mother Night, ties into the Adolf Eichmann Nazi Trial of 1961.
Read HERE about Kurt Vonnegut’s fan mail collection held in the Lilly Library.
Read HERE about Kurt Vonnegut’s love life and how his wife pushed him to become a writer shortly after marriage.