Vonnegut's "Mother Night" Feels Eerily Familiar, Sixty Years Later
Published January 19, 2021 at 3:52 PM CST Listen • 48:37 / Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night" is the January pick for the 2021 season of the Talk of Iowa Book Club. First published in 1961, then republished several years later from Iowa City, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night” explores issues of morality, humanity and individual responsibility in the aftermath of World War II. While the book explores an era of misinformation and mass tragedy decades in the past, the themes feel eerily relevant to the state of affairs in 2021. It’s a new season of the Talk of Io...
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