Here is an indulgent gift (for yourself or those Vonnegut fans you know) that you may not be able to pass up. Organized by subject, a concept unique to most short story collections, Vonnegut’s prodigious writing (this title is 900 pages!) is organized by such topics as War, Women, Science, Romance, Behavior, and more. –Watermark …
“Before great artists such as Kurt Vonnegut, Louis CK, George Carlin, the Coen Brothers, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Richard Pryor, Charlie Kaufman, Buster Keaton . . . there was grandfather Twain to beget them. All American literature, and most world literature, gets filtered through these pages.”—Stephen, Ravenna Third Place, Seattle. Buy The Complete Short Stories …
It’s Father’s Day Sunday. Not enough time to get a package in the mail, if you haven’t already, but you could always call Dad’s local store and ask the booksellers to wrap up something for him. Flavorwire has a few good ideas, including Charles Shields’ Vonnegut biography and Patrick deWitt’s The Sister’s Brothers. Sylla McClellan …
“Blueprints of the Afterlife is a creative move away from the dragons, vampires and spaceships that dominate the sci-fi fantasy field. Set in a futuristic Seattle, corporate-sponsored armies do battle, medicine is dispensed by way of a version of the Internet, and a sentient glacier wreaks havoc on the continent. Imagine a Kurt Vonnegut treatment …
