kurt vonnegut

A Country Without a Heart

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Feb 6, 2018 Martin Luther King selling Ram trucks during the Super Bowl may be the tipping point for America. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Kurt Vonnegut’s Call to Save the Planet Is Just as Timely Now as It Was Four Decades Ago

By Kurt Vonnegut / Alternet Nov 17, 2016 "We must love one another and care for one another as best we can, and we must organize." Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Remembering the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit Priest and Peace Activist

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2016 He was a man of the cloth and a man of letters, but most of all, Berrigan was a man of peace. He was also, as it happened, the man whom Kurt Vonnegut went so far as to call "Jesus as a poet." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Say ‘Hi-Ho!’ as They Strip-Search You

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2012 Reflecting on his arrest with Kurt Vonnegut while protesting apartheid outside the South African consulate in the early 1980s, David Lindorff, founder of the news blog This Can’t Be Happening, says he and the author might be treated differently if they were arrested today. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Tales of Vonnegut

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2011 Two books recently out reassess Kurt Vonnegut’s personal and social legacies. Book by book, "Unstuck in Time" chronicles the unintentional development of the man’s political life, while "And So It Goes," a straightforward biography, adjusts his popular, fanciful image as a grandfatherly saint with accounts of alcoholism, cruelty and resentment of his professional peers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Jane Ciabattari on Kurt Vonnegut

BLANK Dec 25, 2009 A wondrous new collection of previously unpublished vintage Vonnegut confirms his enduring and subversive ear for the absurd and the tragicomic. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84

Staff / Truthdig Apr 12, 2007 The iconic writer, who challenged conventional wisdom through 14 novels and numerous essays, died Wednesday from a brain injury. Vonnegut survived a nearly lifelong smoking habit only to succumb to a recent fall in his apartment. He once joked that he would prefer to die in a plane crash on Kilimanjaro and said he would avoid suicide "so as not to set a bad example for my children." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )