‘Busy, busy, busy,” chant the followers of the prophet/charlatan Bokonon to describe humanity in Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalyptic Cat’s Cradle. Untitled Theater Company #61 has taken the Bokononists’ words ...

Students part of a class titled “Vonnegolf” spent eight weeks planning, designing and creating five mini golf holes to bring to life at this spring’s Granfalloon Festival. Each hole in the course ...

It was 1963 when the Beach Boys recorded “Catch a Wave”—and 1963, as well, when a nearly failed proto-New Wave science-fiction writer named Kurt Vonnegut Jr. made a sudden leap up into mainstream ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Picard saying "Engage" on Star Trek: The Next Generation - Paramount Kurt Vonnegut, the author of whimsical, cynical, ...

Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died yesterday ...

We should all read more Kurt Vonnegut. Not just the big works like “Slaughterhouse-Five” or “Cat’s Cradle,” but the short stories and essays, too. In this moment, we should all read “Armageddon in ...