Kurt Vonnegut
Walter James Miller talks about Slaughterhouse Five and other works by Kurt Vonnegut with the author.WNYC archives id: 152527
View ArticleCities of the Present and the Future
WNYC architecture critic David Lowe speaks with environmental attorney Eric Goldstein, novelist Kurt Vonnegut, and urban sociologist William H. Whyte.WNYC archives id: 8544
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut - How Television Has Corrupted Reality
Kurt Vonnegut writer delivers his monologue on how TV has corrupted reality on the Brian Lehrer show.
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut shares his first book since 1999, A Man Without a Country with host Leonard Lopate
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut’s son, Mark Vonnegut, talks about his father’s life and work. Armageddon in Retrospect is a new collection of twelve unpublished writings of Kurt Vonnegut on war and peace.Event: Mark...
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut: WNYC Reporter on the Afterlife
The author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) worked with WNYC producer Marty Goldensohn on a 1998 series known as Reports on the Afterlife. A year earlier, Vonnegut explained these reports would come as a...
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Aha Moment: Jon Ronson on Kurt Vonnegut
(Tom McQuaid)Kurt Vonnegut is a serious writer who holds a special place in the hearts of teenagers (including a young Kurt Andersen). Jon Ronson got hooked on Vonnegut when he was 15. For his long...
View ArticleThe complete Vonnegut interviews, 1973-1983
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a good friend and guest of Walter James Miller, host of WNYC's Reader's Almanac, a show done in conjunction with New York University's School of Continuing and Professional...
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Kurt Vonnegut on Breakfast of Champions
Nearly forty years ago, Walter James Miller, host of WNYC’s “Reader’s Almanac” program, conducted five interviews with Kurt Vonnegut. The first one took place on June 30, 1974, soon after Vonnegut had...
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Kurt Vonnegut on Slapstick, His Sci-Fi Family Novel
This second of four interviews Walter James Miller conducted with Kurt Vonnegut for WNYC took place on October 25, 1976. Vonnegut’s novel Slapstick had just come out, but it received withering reviews...
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Kurt Vonnegut and L.J. Davis and the Novelist's Relationship to Community
This May 1, 1978 interview was the third one Vonnegut had with Walter James Miller for WNYC’s “Readers Almanac.” This time, however, Vonnegut shared the microphone with journalist/novelist L. J. Davis....
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Kurt Vonnegut on Jailbird, His Watergate Novel
This last of four interviews of Vonnegut by Walter James Miller took place on October 1, 1979, and it’s the crown jewel of the set. Vonnegut had just published his “Watergate novel,”Jailbird, in which...
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Vonnegut on Deadeye Dick, a Story of "Gun Nuts and Nukes"
Walter James Miller interviewed Kurt Vonnegut for the last time on WNYC’s Reader's Almanac on January 2, 1983. Vonnegut’s novel Deadeye Dick had just been published to mixed reviews.As he had in...
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut: "Fates Worse Than Death"
In the Spring of 1982 The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City launched a series of sermons on nuclear disarmament for their Sunday service. Among those invited to preach were activist Dr....
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut Talks to the Dead
As part of WNYC's 90th anniversary celebration, Marty Goldensohn, former WNYC news director, shares excerpts from the station's 1998 series "Reports on the Afterlife." It's based on Vonnegut's book God...
View ArticleKurt and Bernard Vonnegut in the House of Magic
Kurt Vonnegut joined his brother, Bernard, at General Electric in the late 1940s. Bernard was a scientist working on cutting-edge weather-control technologies while Kurt worked in G.E.'s PR department....
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