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A Kurt Vonnegut Megamix

Kurt Vonnegut in 1972. Santi Visalli/Getty Images Today, 11th November 2022, marks 100 years since the birth of Kurt Vonnegut. Most—but not all—of the following excerpts come from Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, a superb collection of Vonnegut’s correspondence ably edited by his friend, Dan Wakefield. According to a sum I just did, that book was published a decade ago; and yet still I return regularly to my well-thumbed copy, the vast majority of its pages folded at the corner. The final letter below, to Xavier High School in New York, can be found in the second volume of Letters of Note—reprinted…

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