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Rosewater County

Addendum to The Grand Social Experiment

Rick Van Kooten   What is the best estimate of the location of the fictional Rosewater, Indiana? Being a Hoosier and someone who loves maps, and who has an obsession akin to trying to explain the periodicity of Rumfoord’s appearances in Sirens of Titan, I could not resist trying to estimate from clues in the novel the location of the …

Rave on, Eliot Rosewater | Harriss on God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Cooper Harriss   I take satisfaction in observing the ways that Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater rehearses with some precision a number of specific themes I’ve discussed in the first four installments of this project. The title’s benediction (“God bless you!”), which we see recur among the townspeople even to the point of betrayal, registers secularism’s religious unconscious, mirroring …