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 academic career. What I Pretended to Be Ask any friend of mine to provide a few details about me, and my affinity for...
What would Kurt Vonnegut think of Donald Trump? Vonnegut scholar Marc Leeds shares his thoughts in an essay from Literary Hub. http://lithub.com/what-would-kurt-vonnegut-think-of-donald-trump/ For more from Marc Leeds, check out this interview with The Daily Vonnegut: Marc Leeds - The Vonnegut Encyclopedia ...
Originally published in 1961 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, “Harrison Bergeron” is Kurt Vonnegut’s most well-known story. In The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, Peter J. Reed describes the story as “vintage Vonnegut …extremely funny while at the same time touching on...
Tom Carson offers an extended essay on George Roy Hill's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five on the Library of America website. Check out the full essay at the following link: The Moviegoer - Slaughterhouse-Five ...
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 1940’s. Yet equally important is the story of Bernard Vonnegut, Kurt’s older brother, an accomplished scientist specializing in weather phenomenon. Author...
Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, originally published as a paperback original in 1961, continues to resonate with its times. Professor Susan Farrell, in an essay presented at the American Literature Association Conference in 2016, explored the relationship between the assorted fascists connected to Howard W. Campbell...
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds, an invaluable reference for Vonnegut fans, has been published by Delacorte Press in a new updated edition. For more, read The Daily Vonnegut's interview with Leeds from 2015. Interview with Marc Leeds - The Vonnegut Encyclopedia...
Check out this 2011 interview with Vonnegut's long-time agent, business manager, and friend Donald Farber. Donald Farber on the Legacy of Kurt Vonnegut Interestingly, Farber is asked about Vonnegut's final, unfinished novel, If God Were Alive Today. On the question of whether or not it would ever see...