Kurt Vonnegut
Five Previously Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Stories Will Be Published This Month
'Complete Stories' gathers all 97 of the 'Slaughterhouse-Five' author's shorts in one powerful tome.
Dancers Melt Through Space in a Stunning CGI Experiment
A Korean animator bends time and space like Kurt Vonnegut's all-knowing aliens.
All This Will Happen, More or Less: A Kurt Vonnegut Opera Debuts in Indiana This Month
Here's a little-known fact: the 'Cat’s Cradle' and 'Slaughterhouse Five' author wrote an opera in the weeks leading up to his death. Now, 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June' makes its long-awaited debut.
FX Is Turning Kurt Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle' into a TV Show
The miniseries will be helmed by Noah Hawley, the guy behind the network's "Fargo" show.
'Escape From Baghdad' Is the 'Slaughterhouse Five' of the Iraq War
Saad Hossain researched his darkly humorous novel by reading the blogs of soldiers serving in Iraq.
There Are Only Six Basic Book Plots, According to Computers
An English professor crunched through 50,000 books to distill the six (sometimes seven) essential plot arcs.
What the Sequester Really Means: The Poor Will Suffer More
The sequester is a set of automatic budget cuts that reduces funding for all discretionary programs at an equal rate. The cuts aren’t meant to eliminate any programs but simply reduce funding across the board. Get ready for some potentially disastrous...
Komplaint Dept. - It's After the End of the World
Most people wouldn't expect to find Sun Ra and Billy Pilgrim in the same room, but Bob Nickas got the two of them together to talk about the end of the world and why some people are upset the apocalypse hasn't come.