Thursday, April 12, 2007

So Long, Mr. Vonnegut

How's this for a strange coincidence: Tonight I returned to the Johnstown Public Library an audio collection of short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut. Some of the stories were classics that I had read before, inlcuding "Harrison Bergeron" and "Welcome to the Monkey House." But many of the others were new to me, such as "A Deer in the Works," and I enjoyed them immensely as I listened to them in the car over the course of the last two weeks. When I got home from the library, I surfed the news sites on the Web to learn that Vonnegut died today. Hmmm ...

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=580066

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