Famous Last Words have been the object of fascination ever since famous people started uttering them. Caesar said “And you, Brutus?” Oscar Wilde made the joke about the ugly curtains. To the ...

From August 2006, this 40 minute Second Life interview certainly wasn't Kurt Vonnegut's final interview, but I wish it was. There seems something entirely appropriate about such an extraordinary ...

The last interview Kurt Vonnegut gave before his death in 2007 was uncharacteristically brief for a man never short of words. Talking to the Chicago magazine In These Times, the great writer flits ...

My interview with Kurt Vonnegut two years ago remains my greatest professional disappointment to date. And I'm still not sure why things went wrong. He was doing publicity in support of his ephemera ...

Author Kurt Vonnegut and his son, Mark, recounted last night the turmoil that unfolded in their family after Mark began to suffer from mental illness in 1969. “Not only did we see you crack when you ...

Kurt Vonnegut saw both the best and worst of humanity during World War II, and couldn't believe how its victory was ...

Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The staunchly anti-war book first resonated with readers during the Vietnam War era, later becoming a staple in ...

James Campbell on the difficult life of a master of fiction In the early 1980s, Kurt Vonnegut was in the habit of lurking around the mailbox near his house in Manhattan, waiting for the collection and ...

In 1971, Mark Vonnegut published his memoir “Eden Express,” a blistering account of his three mental breakdowns in the late 1960s, set against the backdrop of social unrest and hippie communes. The ...

Ms. Augustyn planned to get more material in person at the Indianapolis lecture, but when Mr. Vonnegut died, she decided to pitch what she had as a direct transcript to In These Times because she knew ...

"In the public schools, I learned what America was supposed to be--you, you know, a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world. And obviously, that wasn't the case." (Photo by Jean-Christian ...