NEWS
Press Releases (scroll down to see In the News links)
March 27, 2013 – Vonnegut Library asked to be part of National Summit on arts in the military
March 12, 2013 – Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page to be featured speaker at Night of Vonnegut
February 19, 2013 – Rare vintage WWII cartoons showing at Vonnegut Memorial Library
January 14, 2013 – Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library marks second anniversary with play, authors and former WWII prisoners
January 2013 – Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library to host combat veteran/writer/artist Feb. 1
December 2012 - Lilly Endowment awards $50,000 grant to Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
November 2012 – Week of living inside library sought to stop “neverending ban” of Slaughterhouse-Five
October 2012 – Art and military action transform us inside and out (Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 2012)
August 2012 – Indianapolis editor to live inside Vonnegut Library to protest Banned Books Week
March 9, 2012 – Jim Lehrer to keynote third annual Night of Vonnegut
March 5, 2012 – Vonnegut Library extends high school writing competition, offers teacher workshop
January 3, 2012 – Heartland Actors’ Repertory Theatre (HART) present Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s only play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June January 28 at 7 pm
January 3, 2012 – January 28, 2012 KVML Anniversary Press Release
November 15, 2011 – Kurt Vonnegut’s Cape Cod Car Dealership
October 14, 2011 – Author Karl Zimmer to Speak at Vonnegut Library
October 6, 2011 – Comedian Lewis Black Joins the Honorary Board of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
October 3, 2011 – KVML to Celebrate Spirit & Place Festival with Vonnegut on the Body
September 29, 2011 – John Clark to Speak at IDADA First Friday Event at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
September 20, 2011 – Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Calls Foul Play on What it Considers a “False Repeal” of the Republic, Missouri Book Ban
August 3, 2011 – Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library to Offer Free Copies of Slaughterhouse Five to Students in School Where Book Was Banned
November 11, 2010 – Vonnegut Library receives $100,000 grant from Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation
October 19, 2010 – Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library and Katz and Korin, PC Announce a Public Open House to Preview the Development of the Vonnegut Library
July 28, 2010 – Vonnegut Library Receives $50,000 grant from Lilly Endowment
In The News
Vonnegut Library joins Blue Star Museums for military personnel (WFYI radio, 5/22/13)
1000 Breaths interviews Julia Whitehead (Blog Talk Radio)
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library hosts Glory-June Greiff (Not-for-Profit News, 4/30/13)
1000 Breaths podcast interviews Julia Whitehead (May 2013)
Veer off and visit the Vonnegut Library (Reflector Online, University of Indianapolis, 4/26/13)
Robot Rabbit [13]: An Evening with Kurt Vonnegut (podcast 4/2/13)
WFYI radio interview with Julia Whitehead on national military arts summit (4/1/13)
Society of Indiana Archivists (newsletter)
Library memorializes Vonnegut’s life (Science Fiction Sojourns, March 6, 2013)
Bookishness Around Town: Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (Avid Reader’s Musings, March 9, 2013)
Library memorializes Kurt Vonnegut’s life (Reporter-Times, March 7, 2013)
World War II training films to be shown at Vonnegut Library (IndianapolisStar, Feb. 28, 2013)
Arts & entertainment priority list (Indianapolis Business Journal A&E blog, Feb. 27, 2013)
Rare military training cartoons to be shown at Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (Dayton Daily News, Feb. 23, 2013)
Rare vintage WWII cartoons showing at nation’s only Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (Fort Bragg Patch, Feb. 20, 2013)
Pictures and a summary of the Vonnegut Library event (Children of Internment, Jan. 27, 2013)
Vonnegut Memorial Library marks second anniversary (The Flyer Group, Jan. 24, 2013)
War vet brings special art to Vonnegut Library (Hendricks County Flyer, Jan. 29, 2013
Vonnegut Memorial Library marks second anniversary (Hendricks County Flyer, Jan. 25, 2013)
IndyStyle (WISH-TV, the Indianapolis CBS affiliate)
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Second Anniversary (NW Indiana Times, Jan. 24, 2013)
Vonnegut Library marks its second anniversary (The Herald Bulletin, Jan. 15, 2013)
So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (Issa’s Untidy Hut: The Poetry Blog for the Lilliput Review, Nov. 23, 2012)
Fine Here is Your Bloody Kurt Vonnegut (Wonkette blog, Nov. 12, 2012)
Spirit & Place Veterans Day – video (WISH-TV’s Indy Style, Nov. 5, 2012)
The Successful Posthumous Career of Kurt Vonnegut (Business Insider, Nov. 3, 2012)
Editor’s Pick – Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library: Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day (NUVO)
Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day (IndyVibe)
Happening at IUPUI – Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day
Arts of War on the web (Oct. 25, 2012)
‘Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day: Healing Through the Humanities’ offers new take on Nov. 11 holiday (Military News, Before It’s News, Oct. 23, 2012)
So It Went: Locked Up With Vonnegut (Wells Reference Blog, Oct. 8, 2012):
Indianapolis writer takes stand in honor of Banned Books Week (Examiner.com, Lexington Headlines Examiner, Oct. 5, 2012)
Freedom to Read: Indianapolis writer’s ‘lock-in’ puts focus on banned books (AP story, Alex Jones’ InfoWars.com, Oct. 5, 2012)
Prisoner of Books (An Interview with Corey Michael Dalton) (The Hub, the Young Adult Library Services Association, YALSA, Oct. 5, 2012)
Locked Up With Vonnegut (Melville House blog, Oct. 5, 2012)
Slideshow: Locked up with Vonnegut (NUVO, Oct. 5, 2012)
Man protesting censorship camps out in window of Vonnegut library during Banned Books Week (RTV6, Oct. 1, 2012)
Banned Books Week commemorated at Vonnegut Library (Mojo Traveler blog, Oct. 1, 2012)
Indy writer’s lock-in puts focus on book bans (Associated Press Story carried by The Stamford Advocate, San Antonio Express, CTPost.com, Oct. 1, 2012)
Take One: October 1, 2012 (Cornell University Library Staff Web, Oct. 1, 2012)
Indy writer stages lock-in at Vonnegut Library to focus attention on efforts to ban books (The Republic, Columbus, Ind., Oct. 1, 2012)
‘Lock-in’ at Indy’s Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library launches Banned Books Week (The Indianapolis Star, Sept. 30, 2012)
Classics celebrated as ‘Banned Books Week’ turns 30 (The Raw Story, Sept. 30, 2012)
No sex, please, we’re American — Banned Books Week turns 30! (The Guardian, Sept. 28, 2012)
Locked Up With Vonnegut interview (Saturday Evening Post)
Locked Up With Vonnegut! (Do317.com, Sept. 26)
Locked Up in the Vonnegut Library (NUVO, Sept. 26, 2012)
Editor Marks Banned Books Week by Being Locked Up at Vonnegut Memorial Library (School Library Journal, Aug. 23, 2012)
Banned Books, Decay Books and Wikipedia(Plots and Playgrounds, Aug. 23, 2012)
My Own Prison: Author to Spend Week in Jail Made of Books (LitReactor.com, Aug. 16, 2012)
Bookshelves of Doom (Aug. 16, 2012)
Locked Up With Vonnegut (NUVO, Sept. 9, 2012)
Branches (September)
One fan’s unique celebration of Banned Books Week (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Aug. 30, 2012)
Man to construct, live in ‘prison’ of books within Vonnegut Library during Banned Books Week (New York Daily News, Aug. 16, 2012)
Kurt Vonnegut library to become fan’s home during Banned Books Week (Indianapolis Star, Aug. 20, 2012)
2012 CVAs: Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library (May 30, 2012)
Vaunted Vonnegut (AirTran inflight magazine, April 2012)
2012 Night of Vonnegut Scores (April 24, 2012)
KVML wins NUVO 2012 Cultural Vision Award (April 6, 2012)
PMC Magazine interviews library Executive Director, Julia Whiehead (November 22, 2011)
Vonnegut’s 89th Birthday (November 10, 2011)
The Vonnegutian Newsletter
The KVML wishes to thank volunteers Jackie Norris, the editor, and Sara Lunsford, the graphic designer of this newsletter. If you have story ideas or would like to comment on the newsletter, please e-mail: newsletter@vonnegutlibrary.org.
