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The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser... →
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks... →
On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed... →
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it... →
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more... →
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine... →
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they... →
Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be... →
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in... →
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