May 1, 2008
Links 8 (Vonnegut)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., one of my favorite writers and a fine human being, died last year. I had lots of related bookmarks saved up (I guess in the expectation of weaving them into some sort of tribute). Here are a few of them...
1. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will. Things like these:
"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing."
"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
2. The Art of Fiction No. 64 - a great interview from 1977.
3. Harrison Bergeron - a short story. I have no idea why the link was in my bookmarks list.
4. NOW - A Tribute To Kurt Vonnegut - one of his last public interviews, from the PBS program. To see all 20+ minutes of the interview (which you really should because the last half is better than the first), you'll need to go to the PBS page, but you can see part of it on YouTube:
5. Original Kilgore Trout Stories - someone went through Vonnegut's books, located all the excerpts from Kilgore Trout stories, and put them online. Wonderful.
6. Dear Mr. Vonnegut, - Vonnegut wrote lots of articles recently that can be found online. I had bookmarks to quite a few of them, but I most enjoyed his short answers to e-mails (sent in response to his interview Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@) in Dear Mr. Vonnegut. There's also a part two and a part three.
7. For a few more links, check out one of my old Vonnegut posts.
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