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Over his lifetime, the author gave dozens of quirky commencement addresses. He made some preposterous claims. But they made people laugh and think.
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To his adoring young fans in the 1960s and '70s, the anti-establishment novelist was the father they wished they had
In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.
A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. He witnessed the worst of humans.
Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.