NEWS

Press Releases

January 3, 2011 – Heartland Actors’ Repertory Theatre (HART) present Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s only play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June January 28 at 7 pm

January 3, 2011 – 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…

PMC Magazine interviews library Executive Director, Julia Whiehead (November 22, 2011)

Vonnegut’s 89th Birthday (November 10, 2011)

Download PDF “New library honors the chapters of Vonnegut’s life,” The Indianapolis Star (January 30, 2011)
Link Video “Vonnegut Library Tour,” WTHR (January 28, 2011)
Download PDF “Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library opens in Indianapolis,” WTHR (January 28, 2011)
Link Video “Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Tour,” C-SPAN2 BOOKTV (January 16, 2011)
Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s “On Point” discusses Kurt’s Legacy with the KVML’s own Julia Whitehead and Rodney Allen alongside writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Rick Moody (December 2, 2010)
Download PDF “Indianapolis Opens Museum to Honor Its Literary Native Son,” New York Times (November 19, 2010)
Download PDF “$100K gift from foundation,” Indy Star (November 16, 2010)
Download PDF “Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library opens,” Chicago Tribune (November 12, 2010)
Download PDF “New library will showcase Vonnegut’s life,” Indy Star (November 10, 2010)
Download PDF “Memorial Library Honoring Kurt Vonnegut Jr ’44 to Open in Indianapolis,” Cornell Daily Sun (October 8, 2010)
Download PDF “And So It Goes: Vonnegut Library to Open,” New York Times (August 20, 2010)
Download PDF “New library to celebrate Kurt Vonnegut’s writing,” IndyStar (August 18, 2010)
Download PDF “Vonnegut Library receives $50,000 grant from Lilly Endowment” (July 28, 2010)
Download PDF “A New Chapter,” Indianapolis Monthly (July 2010)
Download PDF “Bring Vonnegut Back from Indy, Yes Finding He’s Already Here” SoBo Voice (Volume 3, Issue 3, June – July 2010)
Download PDF “Downtown buildings land arts tenants,” Indianapolis Business Journal (March 30, 2010)
Download PDF “Before their time,” The Boston Globe (March 7, 2010)
Download PDF “Vonnegut’s kin back local memorial library,” Indianapolis Business Journal (Dec. 24, 2009)
Download PDF “Slaughterhouse-Five at Forty,” In These Times (Dec. 23, 2009)
Download PDF “Honoring an author,” Indiana Lawyer (Dec. 23, 2009)

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.