Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. Charles Shields' rendering of Vonnegut's personal and literary battles, told in the words of those who knew him best — wives (two), lovers (more than we might have ...

The Kurt Vonnegut we remember ... But Charles Shields’s insightful new biography reveals that even the shrug of that book’s refrain—“so it goes”—was Vonnegut playacting.

But he got lucky with Kurt Vonnegut. Shields found a lonely ... “And So It Goes” also traces the paradoxes in Vonnegut’s personal life. He was widely regarded as a lovable patriarch ...

In the introduction, Wakefield sketches Vonnegut's life -- a prosperous youth ... interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and ...

Now on VOD, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time details the life of the rare writer deserving ... Unstuck in Time will be a fascinating, sometimes deeply personal experience. I felt the same way ...

The novelist Kurt Vonnegut ... Vonnegut led an essentially humor-free life. And perhaps this was, in turn, the wellspring of his art. Certainly his personal circumstances were almost satirically ...

Weide wrote a letter to Kurt Vonnegut asking for permission to make ... being a Prisoner of War in World War II, his personal life, and eventual success as a writer in 1969 with the release ...

BIANCULLI: The documentary "Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time" does the same thing. It bounces randomly rather than chronologically from point to point in Vonnegut's life with music and editing and ...

The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library located downtown celebrates the life and work of the first-amendment advocate, artist and author. It displays a host of personal possessions, including his ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Starting Saturday, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library will celebrate the life and legacy of the namesake author with its annual VonnegutFest. According to its website, this year ...

as well as how Vonnegut finally discovered the means to approach the subject in his novel. This is by far the best part of the biography. Yet an interesting point Shields mentions is how in the ...