Directing Mother Night – An Interview with Keith Gordon Chances are you know the scene: Rodney Dangerfield, playing Thornton Melon in Back to School, has a “major paper about Kurt Vonnegut” almost due and he’s yet to even start it. As his son Jason warns him about...
Breaking Down Vonnegut – An Interview with Julia Whitehead, Founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library If there’s an MVP for promoting Kurt Vonnegut’s work and legacy, Julia Whitehead is that person. The founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library...
Bringing Kurt Vonnegut to the Stage – An interview with Ben Rock If you had to pick the one Kurt Vonnegut novel least likely to be adapted for the stage, The Sirens of Titan would be the go-to choice, but that didn’t stop the Sacred Fools...
Firing the Flare Gun and Shouting, “Read it again!” An Interview with Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, creators and hosts of the podcast Kurt Vonneguys. Born in 1922, Kurt Vonnegut grew up in the golden age of radio, when millions of people gathered around the...
Two Guys From the Same Family – An Interview with Robert Weide, co-director of Unstuck in Time. If you’re a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, you’ve been waiting for this film for years. Maybe you even contributed to the Kickstarter campaign to help fund production. Now,...
The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut’s Long Struggle to Write His Masterpiece – An Interview with Tom Roston, author of The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and The Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five. In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut describes how the novel’s subtitle, The Children’s...
Waking People Up – The Prophetic Voice of Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview with Steve Almond, author of Not That You Asked and William Stoner and The Battle for The Inner Life Steve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New...
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters 1941-1945 (Random House) is an unexpected and delightful addition to the Vonnegut canon. Edited by Kurt’s daughter, Edith Vonnegut, the book gives readers a look at the hundreds of letters Kurt wrote to his future wife Jane Cox, his words...
In A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2019 – Yale University Press), David O. Dowling explores the history of America’ preeminent creative writing program. When Kurt Vonnegut joined the Workshop faculty during the mid-1960’s he stood out for his lack...
Kurt Vonnegut’s literary reputation in the United States has been well-documented, but little has been written about his impact in the Soviet Union during the years of the Cold War. Sarah D. Phillips is set on changing that. Phillips, a professor of anthropology at Indiana...