Letter #9: Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five

How to make sense of senseless things

Letter #9: Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five How to make sense of senseless things Ali Montag Aug 18, 2020 1 Share Howdy new subscribers. This is Letters from Home & Away, written by Kate Lucky and Ali Montag. We’re journalists, writers, readers, and buddies. We used to live ten blocks apart. We used to stop by each other’s apartments to exchange books, laugh at Twitter, and drink big cups of coffee. Now, we’re stuck 1,100 miles apart. We’re using this Substack to send each other letters from home and away, from the places we travel and the places we return to. Each Tuesday, we recommend a bo

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