Kurt Vonnegut is credited with some of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, ...

You are leafing (or scrolling) through The Wall Street Journal and you notice the name Kurt Vonnegut in a book review. You remember liking something of his. Maybe it was a novel: “Breakfast of ...

If you have an old landline telephone in Michigan, one of many outdated regulations requires the phone company to print and deliver a “white pages” directory to your house. In his 1961 short story ...

Naturally, Vonnegut has a story for such a time. “Harrison Bergeron” is the anti-equity tale — it truly has no equal. In fact, the editors of NR loved “Bergeron” so much in the 1960s ...

The author of three of my favorite books ... Kurt Vonnegut, RIP. Jesse Walker | 4.12.2007 9:32 AM. Share on Facebook Share on X Share on Reddit Share by email Print friendly version Copy page URL.

It was in the 1950s that Kurt Vonnegut, then in his early 30s, quit his job as a publicity man for the research department of General Electric and committed himself to a freelance career. He soon ...

The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse Five, by Tom Roston (Abrams Press, 2021), 261 pages.. Forty-five years ago, fresh off the success of his classic novels ...

Attorneys representing students from the Shawnee Mission district say the story “Harrison Bergeron” shows that a world of forced equality ... “to see someone is quoting Kurt Vonnegut. ...