Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is two documentaries in one. It’s a film about the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut, and on that ...

Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Vonnegut’s reworking of the myth of Odysseus’s return from the Trojan War, was meant as a commentary on the Vietnam War. Now it will be performed as an opera for the first ...

Very few so-called science fiction authors of the 20th century were as prolific as Kurt Vonnegut, and almost none had the same sort of mainstream political and intellectual impact. But as a social ...

On January 30, 2000, Kurt Vonnegut was sitting in the study of his Manhattan brownstone, watching the Super Bowl. During the first quarter, he put out his cigarette and went downstairs to get some ...

In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut was asked by an interviewer why he started writing science fiction. “I was working for General Electric at the time,” he replied, “right after World War II, and I saw a milling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A generation told not to trust anyone over 30 nevertheless adored Vonnegut. Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver ...

In the introduction, Wakefield sketches Vonnegut's life -- a prosperous youth, undergraduate studies at Cornell, service in World War II, early work in advertising. His first short story was published ...

The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse Five, by Tom Roston (Abrams Press, 2021), 261 pages. With the prescience of a quatrain by Nostradamus, the novel imagined a ...

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 ...

Very early in Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut talks about living in Chicago after World War II. “While I was studying to be an anthropologist [at the University of Chicago],” he remembers, “I was ...

An art installation commemorates the novel Slaughterhouse-Five in the cellar of the former slaughterhouse where author Kurt Vonnegut, then an American prisoner of war, was held in Dresden, Germany.

Kurt Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence in shaping 20th century American literature, died Wednesday at 84. He had suffered brain injuries after a recent fall at his Manhattan home, ...