1922-2007

America lost one of its great twentieth century writers last night. Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” has long been a staple of my American literature classes, and my students really enjoyed his tips on How to Write with Style (pdf), too.

Sometimes, when I have a male student — a certain kind of disaffected youth who has trouble finding books he likes — I recommend that he read Kurt Vonnegut.

Vonnegut Links:

• Official Website
• The Vonnegut Web
• Interview on The Daily Show from 2005
• Jessica Hagy’s tribute
• New York Times obituary
• Vonnegut sampler from the Times

So it goes.

[tags]Kurt Vonnegut, Postmodernism, literature[/tags]