Listen to one of Kurt Vonnegut's last interviews, from NOW's October 2005 broadcast. Host David Brancaccio sits down with the legendary author of CAT'S CRADLE and SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE to talk about his life and the state of American democracy. With his classic wit, Vonnegut delivers some choice words …
Listen to one of Kurt Vonnegut's last interviews, from NOW's October 2005 broadcast. Host David Brancaccio sits down with the legendary author of CAT'S CRADLE and SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE to talk about his life and the state of American democracy. With his classic wit, Vonnegut delivers some choice words …
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered
Support KCRW's Summer SignUp: (http://www.kcrw.com) A Man without a Country (7 Stories)The late Kurt Vonnegut has been astonishing us sincethe 1960's.-- Here, in the rebroadcast of a 2006 interview, he speaks as a socialist disappointed by human behavior, our country and our times. He "wants to g …
Kurt Vonnegut???s son, Mark Vonnegut, talks about his father???s life and work. Armageddon in Retrospect is a new collection of twelve unpublished writings of Kurt Vonnegut on war and peace.
Author Kurt Vonnegut talks with Steve Paulson about the use of humor in war time.
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered Part 2bokononism; No Cat - No Cradle; Firestorm; Death
Kurt Vonnegut, author of one of my favorite short stories, "The Long Walk To Forever" is dead at age 84. Read more here.
Death finally came for Vonnegut, but did he predict it?
Listeners are invited to join Diane and her in-studio guests to remember Kurt Vonnegut by discussing his 1963 science fiction novel dealing with religion, politics, human folly and a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.
Really bad TV themes, and where is my Kurt Vonnegut book?
Kurt Vonnegut, known for dark humor and satire in his novels and other writing, died Wednesday in New York City at the age of 84 after sustaining brain injuries from a recent fall. Two experts discuss Vonnegut's influence on American literature.
Author Kurt Vonnegut called himself a free-thinking humanist. Others said his unerring moral compass, colloquial style, and ability to mix sadness and humor made Vonnegut the Mark Twain of his generation. The author's readers clung to his pointed observations of society and its shortcomings.
Author Kurt Vonnegut called himself a free-thinking humanist. Others said his unerring moral compass, colloquial style, and ability to mix sadness and humor made Vonnegut the Mark Twain of his generation. The author's readers clung to his pointed observations of society and its shortcomings.
Brian talks about the stories that have struck him today and replays a clip of Kurt Vonnegut from 2003.
Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-Nine; and Friday the 13th Revisited
A Man without a Country (7 Stories)In his eighties, Kurt Vonnegut is still the magnificent satirist, critic, dreamer and grouch who has been astonishing us from the nineteen-sixties on. Here, he speaks as a socialist disappointed by human behavior, our country and our times. He "wants to go home …
Listeners are invited to join Diane and her in-studio guests to remember Kurt Vonnegut by discussing his 1963 science fiction novel dealing with religion, politics, human folly and a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.
One of the last books the late, great Kurt Vonnegut wrote was a collection of essays in which he portrayed a reporter, interviewing the deceased. We listen in on what he found.
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