In a sun-lit library at Shortridge High School one cold October afternoon, high school sophomore Ace Butler is weaving a poem about what happens to your soul when you're dreaming, how dreams are a ...

Over at Slate, there’s a hilarious excerpt from the new book of Kurt Vonnegut’s letters: a term paper assignment he gave to his creative writing students at the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1965.

As an old man looking back on his long writing career, Kurt Vonnegut insisted that surviving the World War II firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war "explains absolutely nothing about why I write ...

“Man created the checkerboard,” Mr. Vonnegut once wrote. While working on novels in the 1950s, he created a board game of his own. By Julia Carmel Even Kurt Vonnegut needed a day job. After releasing ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., whose best selling works like “Slaughterhouse Five” and ...