We nearly choked on our Breakfast of Champions when we heard Delcorte Press announced they will release 14 previously unpublished short stories from Kurt Vonnegut. The author died in April 2007, but fans can look forward to the new collection Look at the Birdie as well as re-issues of other Vonnegut canon classics like Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night. more ›

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. passed away last night in New York from brain damage due to a fall several weeks earlier. We never knew him, with the exception of Tankboy, who met him once, but we loved him like that teacher in high school, the only one you ever cared to finish your homework for or make an effort. His grammar was not English teacher perfect, and his paragraphs were curt, sometimes one sentence. He was,... more ›