Dear Kurt Vonnegut: We read about the burning of your work at Drake High School. We are very sorry. It was a horrible act. Some of us where wondering: did the authorities in Drake know what they were doing? Really?…
Happy Birthday, Kurt. Published on November 12, 2015 in The Manifest Station online journal. Jane is a Southern California based writer and visual artist with a life-long history of social activism. “We are what we pretend to be, so we…
Dear Kurt Vonnegut, “Why can’t I be like everyone else?” is what I thought. I hated that I did not fit in with them. I wasn’t athletic or funny or anything that would make me somebody. Your story Harrison Bergeron…
Evening Mr. Vonnegut, Not that either of us really believe in an afterlife, but I’m sure they’ve got wifi there, so why wouldn’t you receive this letter? Everyone’s heard of Kurt Vonnegut before and most people have read one of…
Dear Kurt Vonnegut, You have been what I’ve been searching for my entire college career. How lucky am I to have discovered you my very last semester within the academic world. I have been through four different majors during my…
Dear Kurt, After reading a substantial amount of your work over a relatively short period of time, I still do not know what people are for. I do not know how a government could successfully work for the equal benefit…
Dear Kurt, thank you so much for writing and better yet, sharing your work. Studying your work (even for school) was fun and your awareness of the human condition is refreshing. Although it took me taking a Vonnegut themed college…
Dear Kurt, Instead of telling you about your own work and how I’ve interpreted it, I want to tell you how it has affected me. I hope that’s okay. I’ve never considered myself a religious person. Growing up, my mom…
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