Kurt Vonnegut aspired to be a sort of "cultivated eccentric." Reviewer Drew Toal says a new collection of Vonnegut's letters — by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and mundane — reveals ...

Kurt Vonnegut's 1956 letter pitching GHQ to the Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron, Ohio, from the Kurt Vonnegut collection at the Lilly Library. The game was rejected at the time and didn't ...

Vonnegut's plain-spoken quality is generously displayed in a new Dan Wakefield-edited collection of letters, which addresses, in turn, the business of writing and his family life.

Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited and with an introduction by Dan Wakefield, Delacorte Press, 436 pages ($35). Some of the claims currently being made for this book are more than a ...

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote Jay McInerney in 1991, "is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe." This feature collects the original New York Times reviews ...

Letters between Kurt Vonnegut and the Saalfield Publishing Company, who eventually rejected his board game, GHQ. The New York Times ...

Kurt Vonnegut, the Making of a Writer by Dan Wakefield; Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press, 264 pages ($25.95). Age 12 and up. Novelist, screenwriter and fellow Indiana native Dan Wakefield draws ...

We don’t need to keep kids safe from books by Toni Morrison and Kurt Vonnegut | Letters Letters to the Editor Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 0:00 ...

Kurt Vonnegut Once Told a Story About Buying 1 Envelope at a Time? "Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope," a popular Facebook post began.