In his nonfiction collection Palm Sunday – in the middle of an essay that’s supposed to be about sex – Kurt Vonnegut presents a grade report for his own novels. That report is featured below: He wasn’t very kind to…
Slaughterhouse-Five is the third book in Rachel’s Best Vonnegut Reading Order. I’m reading it second because I didn’t realize she’d moved Player Piano to #1 from its original #4 position. I’ve tried to read this book before. I was a high…
What is KVML reading this summer? Our staff members share their reading lists. Julia (Chief Executive Officer): I’ll be reading Turtles All The Way Down by John Green, The Road To Character by David Brooks, The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds, and Captain…
What is membership with the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library like? Who better to ask than Indy’s very own, Chris Gahl. Chris serves as senior vice president of Visit Indy, the city’s official sales and marketing organization and is a…
This blog was written last summer, when Rachel and Emma were both KVML interns. Emma is back again this summer. Address any complaints about this reaction to her. I really hadn’t read much Vonnegut when I started working at KVML. In…
If you’ve been hanging about our library for a while, you’ll know that the “library” bit seems like an afterthought at first glance. We do have a model of Vonnegut’s study cozied up in the back corner, but it’s nothing…
This blog was written by Rachel Kisken, one of our summer interns in 2017. It never got published when she was here, but we’ve decided it’s about time it saw the light of day. Enjoy, and happy reading. Inspired by…
Dear Kurt, As I close out my sophomore year of college, I find that the world is often not as pretty as it used to seem. With adulthood slowly (oh my God, so slowly) creeping up on me, I notice…
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