Dear K.V,My name is Sam Schaeffer and I discovered your work fairly recently. I read Harrison Bergeron in high school, and then worked my way through several of your novels this semester in a major writer’s course at SUNY Fredonia. As my sophomore…
Kurt Vonnegut, Thank you for being real and speaking freely in your novels. Unfortunately, many can’t appreciate your candor but that is why I begin my letter with thanks. Because I appreciate it. The ways in which you get people…
Dear Kurt, Sometimes I wonder who will meet me at the mouth of that big blue tunnel to the Afterlife, if such a thing is to be believed in. When I was a child, experiencing death largely consisted of putting…
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…
Adam from Utica, NY Dear Kurt, I hope you don’t mind, but I recently borrowed one of your famous phrases (which you borrowed from Uncle Alex) for a speech. I of course attributed the quote to you (sorry, Uncle Alex!).…
Dear Kurt, You know, you spoke at my college in 1978. Granted, I wasn’t alive at the time. I wasn’t even a thought in either of my parents’ heads. You were so involved with the arts and so…
Dear Kurt, I am currently a college student and I am enrolled in a class about you. Up until this class, I had never read any of your works and did not even know who you were. The books we…
Dear Kurt, I feel as though I have heard your name for ages but never got the chance to know you. It wasn’t until I took the graduate course at my university devoted to your works and your life that…
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