The Many Vonneguts – An Interview with Zachary Perdieu
In 2016, Zachary Perdieu, co-Vice President of the Kurt Vonnegut Society, delivered a paper at the American Literature Association’s annual conferen...
08 November, 2017
ABOUT KURT
A giant of American literature, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) is the author of 14 novels, including the classic anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, a Modern Library 100 Best Novels selection. His other works include Cat’s Cradle, Mother Night, Breakfast of Champions, and A Man without a Country. Vonnegut’s signature blend of satire, American history, and empathy for the human condition has earned a worldwide following.
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Vonnegut scholar Lawrence Broer on the evolution of Kilgore Trout
In a 2017 interview with The Daily Vonnegut, Professor Lawrence Broer discussed his 2011 book Vonnegut & Hemingway – Writers at War. In ...
03 January, 2018
An Overwhelming Treasure Trove of Writings by Kurt Vonnegut – An Interview with Isabel Planton
If there’s a Disney World for hard-core Vonnegut fans, it just might be at the Lilly Library at Indiana University, home of the Kurt Vonnegut Manusc...
20 October, 2019
Salman Rushdie on Slaughterhouse-Five
In a fine essay published by The New Yorker, Salman Rushdie offers his thoughts on Slaughterhouse-Five. Comparisons to Catch-22 and War and Peace are ...
18 June, 2019
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered: An Interview with Jim O’Loughlin
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered, recently published by The University of Alabama Press, is a must-read for Vonnegut fans as it traces the author’s life thr...
20 May, 2019
The Vonnegut Review – An Interview with Wilson Taylor
Need something to do this summer? Why not tackle the Vonnegut canon? In 2013 Wilson Taylor and Matthew Gannon, two friends and writers with a passion ...
07 April, 2019
Happy Birthday, Slaughterhouse-Five
It’s been fifty years since Delacorte Press first published Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, on March 31, 1969. The novel...
31 March, 2019
Reading Slaughterhouse-Five in Prison
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of Slaughterhouse-Five continues with news of two recent group readings of Vonnegut’s classic novel. First...
05 March, 2019
Vonnegut’s Paradox: Slaughterhouse-Five and the demoralized protagonist
In Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut (1989, University of Alabama Press), Lawrence R. Broer writes: “A striking paradox ...
27 January, 2019
Slaughterhouse-Five – 50th Anniversary
In 2019 The Daily Vonnegut will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, R...
05 January, 2019
Gentle People Sharing a Common Bowl – Happy Holidays from The Daily Vonnegut
Though Kurt Vonnegut identified as a secular humanist, he often described himself as a “Christ-loving atheist,” and readers can find a wea...
24 December, 2018
Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut
On November 11, 1922, a peephole opened quite suddenly in Indianapolis. Light and sound poured in, and the wisp of undifferentiated nothingness we n...
11 November, 2018
Wheelhouse Theater Company presents Happy Birthday, Wanda June – An Interview with Jeffrey Wise and Matt Harrington
In December 1970, Kurt Vonnegut wrote to his friend, fellow novelist Jose Donoso, “…The adventure of having a play produced was harrowing…But I ...
18 October, 2018
Vonnegut 2020?
After a brief hiatus, The Daily Vonnegut will return this Sunday with new trivia and some Vonnegut video. Until then, here’s a quote from Vonn...
15 August, 2018
Tilting the Axis: Kurt Vonnegut and the Environment – An Interview with Christina Jarvis
Even casual fans of Kurt Vonnegut’s work recognize him as a writer engaged with the issues of his time. Vonnegut’s range of interests was vast: th...
21 June, 2018
Philip Roth, Father’s Day, and Weekly Trivia – June 17, 2018
The Daily Vonnegut mourns the recent passing of the great American novelist Philip Roth. Vonnegut’s Jailbird and Roth’s The Ghost Writer...
17 June, 2018
Vonnegut on Guns
With another school shooting in the news last week, it’s worth revisiting some of Kurt Vonengut’s writing about guns. In Fates Worst tha...
21 May, 2018
Harmful Untruths – An Interview with Kevin Brown
One of Kurt Vonnegut’s most enduring phrases is foma, harmless untruths that can make life easier. Yet Vonnegut also explored the opposite—harmfu...
28 February, 2018
2011 Interview with Donald Farber
Check out this 2011 interview with Vonnegut’s long-time agent, business manager, and friend Donald Farber. Donald Farber on the Legacy of Kurt V...
01 July, 2016
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia – Revised and updated edition now available
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds, an invaluable reference for Vonnegut fans, has been published by Delacorte Press in a new updated edition. ...
23 November, 2016
American Fascism and Mother Night – An Interview with Professor Susan Farrell
Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, originally published as a paperback original in 1961, continues to resonate with its times. Professor Susan Farrell, i...
21 March, 2017
The Brothers Vonnegut – An Interview with Ginger Strand
The Brothers Vonnegut, by Ginger Strand, is a fascinating study of Kurt Vonnegut’s career in public relations for General Electric (GE) in the late ...
01 April, 2017
The Moviegoer: Slaughterhouse-Five
Tom Carson offers an extended essay on George Roy Hill’s adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five on the Library of America webs...
01 June, 2017
Teaching “Harrison Bergeron” – An Interview with Benjamin Reed
Originally published in 1961 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, “Harrison Bergeron” is Kurt Vonnegut’s most well-known story. I...
02 June, 2017
What would Vonnegut think of Donald Trump?
What would Kurt Vonnegut think of Donald Trump? Vonnegut scholar Marc Leeds shares his thoughts in an essay from Literary Hub. http://lithub.com/w...
17 June, 2017
Vonnegut and Hemingway: An Interview with Lawrence R. Broer
Vonnegut & Hemingway: Writers at War – An Interview with Lawrence R. Broer While a surface reading of each man’s fiction might find little ...
13 July, 2017
What I Pretended to Be – by Zachary Perdieu
Zachary Perdieu is co-Vice President of the Kurt Vonnegut essay. In the following essay, he shares how Vonnegut’s work helped shape his future...
28 October, 2017
