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Timequake (1997) is a bristling, multi-layered final novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
How I went to Hollywood to sell out my friends the Quibbitses.
Deck of Deeds is poetry for concussed HR bots.
Unusual primary parks, triangles, and angles.
Rita Dove and the alternate histories we’re living.
The necessity of living in the real world.
The few remaining town halls of Kings County.
Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus (1990) is an eerily accurate prediction of our modern world.
M. NourbeSe Philip’s elegy for lost voices.
Scenes from Flushing, Queens scenes.
Bluebeard isn't Kurt Vonnegut's best novel, but it's an example of his impressive range as a writer.
Neil deGrasse Tyson considers what aliens can do.
There are no guarantees in baseball.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow I die.
McGregor is down.
Harmony discovered in mythical realms after a job loss.
Useful ambivalence in language.
American gangster Mickey Cohen passed away in his sleep in 1976 after a life of organized crime.
All work and no play.
My small-town racist version of The Devil Wears Prada.
Wrecking your body but getting paid big bucks.
The late author talks about his time working in the LAPD, collecting anecdotes on the job, and more in this interview with Open Road Media.
The author talks about his work, Ernest Hemingway, and America in this January 9, 2003 interview.
"Marry rich. And read."
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.