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Scattered across the pages of Kurt Vonnegut's novels are the occasional satirical doodles that offer breaks in the text — a headstone with a bittersweet inscription in "Slaughterhouse-Five," or ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., whose best selling works like “Slaughterhouse Five” and ...
For the first time in more than a decade, Kurt Vonnegut fans can take home something new from the legendary Hoosier author’s creative mind. But this time, it’s not a book or a play ...
“Man created the checkerboard,” Mr. Vonnegut once wrote. While working on novels in the 1950s, he created a board game of his own. By Julia Carmel Even Kurt Vonnegut needed a day job. After ...
Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut Science fiction is philosophical ... relatable humanity to her philosophical writing. Animal Farm, George Orwell While 1984 is usually the Orwell work most ...
OF THE MORE than 500 new board and card games introduced to the public at Gen Con 2024—the largest tabletop game convention in the U.S.—perhaps the one with the most interesting history is GHQ, aka ...
In his short story “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut describes a future dystopia ... Strong people must wear heavy bags that limit their agility. And perhaps most poignant to the modern ...
The Kurt Vonnegut Museum is celebrating 15 years of being an official nonprofit organization in Indiana by offering free entry to the museum on Jan. 26 and hosting a party to celebrate that evening.
Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.
Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.