In his year, Vonnegut rests
As his hometown devotes 2007 to him, Kurt Vonnegut says his most recent book is his last. “I’m old, for God’s sake,” he told the A.P. “I’m terribly tired.”
As his hometown devotes 2007 to him, Kurt Vonnegut says his most recent book is his last. “I’m old, for God’s sake,” he told the A.P. “I’m terribly tired.”
For years there’ve been rumblings about a CIA – Paris Review link. Now co-founder Peter Matthiessen confirms that the magazine was his cover.
Harvard University Press has posted audio excerpts from lectures Borges delivered in 1967-68. (Via.) Evidently they are not new — except to me.
Colson Whitehead’s next novel “is about a teenager who subsists on TV dinners and toils at an ice-cream parlor.” (Via.)
Christian fundamentalists are reimagining U.S. history. Their version plays right into the Bush administration’s hands — and plans. (See also.)