The estate of Kurt Vonnegut joined a lawsuit against banning his most famous book. "Slaughterhouse-Five" is about a World War II veteran like Vonnegut himself. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) KURT ...
A federal judge, without ruling on the merits of the case, said the plaintiffs made a sufficient showing that they are harmed ...
The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.
On behalf of the Kurt Vonnegut Estate, authors Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins, and Amy Reed, and two anonymous high school student plaintiffs with the ACLU of Utah filed a complaint on January 6 to ...
Equal parts semi-autobiography, anti-war commentary, science-fiction exploration, and satire, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” centers on the infamous and brutal Bombing of Dresden during World ...
On this day in 1945 (or arguably yesterday, depending on how you deal with timezones), the German city of Dresden was firebombed by the British, killing tens of thousands of people and effectively ...
NEW YORK — In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound. Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key ...
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 an ...