We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American author
Image Source: The Official Website of Kurt Vonnegut
Biographical Details & Highlights - The Vonnegut Web
Welcome to the most expansive, yet wholly unauthorized, Kurt Vonnegut site in the cosmos. Here you'll find pages on each of his novels as well as all manner of detail on the man's life and work.
Death Notice - NY Times
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84
By Diniyia Smith, Published: April 12, 2007
By Diniyia Smith, Published: April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut Reconsidered - biblioklept
Kurt Vonnegut died a year ago today. Vonnegut’s death has left neither a cultural vacuum nor a pining after another great work now never to be. And why should it? He was pretty old–84–and he’d written a relatively substantial collection of novels, plays, essays, and short stories. And admittedly, he hadn’t written a truly great book in decades. Like Bob Dylan, Vonnegut produced his greatest work in the 1960s: Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and, of course, Slaughterhouse-Five (even 1968’s short story collection Welcome to the Monkey House–a book I proudly admit I stole from my 10th grade English teacher–is superior to Vonnegut’s later work). Yet there’s still something about his death that makes me feel a little melancholy, even now–not sad, per se, but rather–and it sounds corny–like something is missing. ...
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